Rob Iola wrote:JohnStOnge wrote:
No. There's a "...could ever be..." in the question. Besides, I think Donald Trump being President of the United States is already more a detriment to this country than Chuck has been. Nothing this bad has ever happened to the United States in terms of who they put into positions of authority. This is really bad. This is like getting in a taxi and noting that the driver is really, really drunk. I'm not talking about like a 0.08 BAC. I'm talking like something like a 0.20. It's absolutely nuts. Again: We have a totally unqualified, mentally ill, totally dishonest person in what is the most powerful single position in our government. It is absolutely stupid to have this situation.
Except that he managed to get Congress to fix the corporate tax rate, returning business capital back to the US - that's bigly yuge...
It's bigly yuge for some, we'll see if it is for the country as a whole years from now. 40% of tax receipts used to come from corporate taxes, now it's 10%. I can see the argument for that but you have to either 1) replace that revenue elsewhere (EG: Reagan's tax increases on the middle class) or cut spending which neither side is good at. Then there's the history of deregulation and high end tax cuts followed by a crash thing. We've seen that movie a few times.
I'm not saying it won't work, but to continue JSO's analogy, we're sort of betting on the cab driver somehow, some way getting us to our destination despite the .20 BAC.