Thunderdome
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For this thread I'd like the discussion to stick between the 2024 election platforms of both candidates. Pros and cons. Things of that nature.
Trump's plan is the best. 🙂 I voted for him both times.![]()
Economy
Election 2024
Harris vs. Trump: Where they stand on the big issues
In some ways the candidates’ plans are similar. Both pledge to keep taxes low for the vast majority of Americans. Both favor efforts to produce more goods at home rather than importing them. And in pursuing their policies, both largely ignore an ever-rising national debt. But they have big differences, too.
- Mr. Trump has said he wants to impose a 60% tariff on all Chinese imports and a 10% to 20% tariff on imports from everywhere else to boost U.S. manufacturing jobs. He aims to extend his expiring tax cuts from 2017, and to cut corporate taxes on domestic production. His promise to deport unauthorized immigrants would reduce the overall number of workers and consumers in the economy. Mr. Trump has also said that he thinks the U.S. president should have some say on how the Fed sets interest rates.
- Ms. Harris says that, with the 2017 Trump tax cuts set to expire, she won’t raise taxes on personal incomes below $400,000. But she calls for a tax hike for corporations and high-income Americans. In her plan the top personal income tax rate would rise from 37% to 39.6%; a new tax would hit unrealized capital gains of the ultra-rich. She also seeks to expand the child tax credit, and to create an “America Forward tax credit” to invest in strategic industries. Ms. Harris has promised to respect the Federal Reserve’s independence to set monetary policy.
Thank you for posting this. Maybe we can discuss now the merits and drawbacks of the plans because I am not the only one who knows the plans. Lol.
Economy
Election 2024
Harris vs. Trump: Where they stand on the big issues
In some ways the candidates’ plans are similar. Both pledge to keep taxes low for the vast majority of Americans. Both favor efforts to produce more goods at home rather than importing them. And in pursuing their policies, both largely ignore an ever-rising national debt. But they have big differences, too.
- Mr. Trump has said he wants to impose a 60% tariff on all Chinese imports and a 10% to 20% tariff on imports from everywhere else to boost U.S. manufacturing jobs. He aims to extend his expiring tax cuts from 2017, and to cut corporate taxes on domestic production. His promise to deport unauthorized immigrants would reduce the overall number of workers and consumers in the economy. Mr. Trump has also said that he thinks the U.S. president should have some say on how the Fed sets interest rates.
- Ms. Harris says that, with the 2017 Trump tax cuts set to expire, she won’t raise taxes on personal incomes below $400,000. But she calls for a tax hike for corporations and high-income Americans. In her plan the top personal income tax rate would rise from 37% to 39.6%; a new tax would hit unrealized capital gains of the ultra-rich. She also seeks to expand the child tax credit, and to create an “America Forward tax credit” to invest in strategic industries. Ms. Harris has promised to respect the Federal Reserve’s independence to set monetary policy.
I agree 💯 percent with you and on another thing it's sad that they would lose 1k.What gets me about the Harris plan was the 25k credits for down payments. That would just put more stress on an already short supply of homes. Also that would increase the value of every home owner's home so higher property taxes and even more shortage of housing would lead to higher rent as well.
Her business plan was only to help new businesses. If you've been in business 1 or more years your taxes go up.
Everyone with kids that were not newborns were going to lose 1k per kid.
I just can't see the merit in her plan.
I looked this up because such a policy would be political suicide and I don’t think any politician would intentionally do that.Everyone with kids that were not newborns were going to lose 1k per kid.
I looked this up because such a policy would be political suicide and I don’t think any politician would intentionally do that.
The policy proposal I read said that she proposed a larger tax credit (up to $6,000) for families with a newborn during the child’s first year of life. Families with older children would not have lost $1,000 per child because of that proposal. It was only about giving newborns more.
Family with 2 kids born prior to the policy would have had nothing extra but didn’t lose anything. Same family has another child after the policy = 3rd child gets up to 6k tax credit.
Tagging Trump as a champion of protecting children is a stretch. There is the recording when he said one of the best things about the Miss America pageant was that you could grab the contestants by their Trentons. It could of been a case of Trump's narcissistic b.s. but not all the contestants were the age of majority. Mar A Lago being the center of Epstein's activities and Trump is excused from that?Harris allowed traffickers to shuffle criminals and peddle kids across our border for 4 years and I have no doubt she would have kept doing that to this day, just like European "leaders" are doing right now.
I'm not a big Trump fan (never voted for a GOP President actually) but at least he put a stop to that atrocity.
Tens of thousands of children are still unaccounted for, and will probably never be found.
Harris allowed traffickers to shuffle criminals and peddle kids across our border for 4 years and I have no doubt she would have kept doing that to this day, just like European "leaders" are doing right now.
I'm not a big Trump fan (never voted for a GOP President actually) but at least he put a stop to that atrocity.
Tens of thousands of children are still unaccounted for, and will probably never be found.
That's just blatantly false. "Epstein Island" was the center of Epstein activities and anyone who told you otherwise was lying to you. Epstein was booted from Mar-A-Lago as soon as Trump found out what Epstein was up to--literally banned from the premises and not allowed back after trying to recruit one of Trump's female employees.Mar A Lago being the center of Epstein's activities and Trump is excused from that?
If you want to believe that then you are a fool. So I am guessing the jury that found Trump guilty of rape and defamation was just a political attack foster by lets say Hunter Biden. All those redacted pages on the Epstein file has nothing to do with Trump? If you believe that you are pathetic and not to be taken seriously.That's just blatantly false. "Epstein Island" was the center of Epstein activities and anyone who told you otherwise was lying to you. Epstein was booted from Mar-A-Lago as soon as Trump found out what Epstein was up to--literally banned from the premises and not allowed back after trying to recruit one of Trump's female employees.
That ban is thought to be the primary reason why Epstein despised Trump. Disgraced "journalist" Michael Wolff even tried cozying up to the imprisoned Epstein in an effort to use his hatred of Trump to sabotage his Presidential run. All of this has been well-documented for you to see for yourself using the names and keywords I've supplied here.
So ... nothing to refute what I said? Just deflection?If you want to believe that then you are a fool. So I am guessing the jury that found Trump guilty of rape and defamation was just a political attack foster by lets say Hunter Biden. All those redacted pages on the Epstein file has nothing to do with Trump? If you believe that you are pathetic and not to be taken seriously.