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Trump calls for military spending increase

Reed95

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Trump did not say whether the increase in military spending would match or exceed pre-sequester funding levels, but a senior campaign aide said Trump would most likely seek to boost defense spending to higher levels than when the sequester went into effect in 2013 after Congress failed to reach a new budget agreement, slashing both defense and domestic spending.
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Donald Trump calls for military spending increase - CNNPolitics.com


Trump wants now to significantly increase spending on military too. He also wants to spend a huge amount on infrastructure, to cut tax rate way lower, and says he can eliminate
$19 trillion debt in eight years. .... Folks, what is missing here? His brain?
 
Reed95 said:
Donald Trump calls for military spending increase - CNNPolitics.com


Trump wants now to significantly increase spending on military too. He also wants to spend a huge amount on infrastructure, to cut tax rate way lower, and says he can eliminate
$19 trillion debt in eight years. .... Folks, what is missing here? His brain?
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The economic power of the United States is significant.

Rather than follow policies that stifle the economy, as has been the case for years under Obama, and will be the case under Hillary Clinton, a healthy and growing economy will provide significant revenue increases that can be used to fund these initiatives.
 
ocean515 said:
The economic power of the United States is significant.

Rather than follow policies that stifle the economy, as has been the case for years under Obama, and will be the case under Hillary Clinton, a healthy and growing economy will provide significant revenue increases that can be used to fund these initiatives.
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It's really cute you think that's what's gong to happen.
 
Jetboogieman said:
Don't worry, if he's elected debt will become magically acceptable for many of its former detractors on January 20th, 2017.
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You are 100% correct, because debt and deficits did NOT matter to them when Reagan and Bush were running things..

“Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter”----- Vice President Dick Cheney
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Jetboogieman said:
Don't worry, if he's elected debt will become magically acceptable for many of its former detractors on January 20th, 2017.
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It's only a matter of time before Trump actually starts to argue that the debt either doesn't matter or can be forgiven.
 
Reed95 said:
Donald Trump calls for military spending increase - CNNPolitics.com


Trump wants now to significantly increase spending on military too. He also wants to spend a huge amount on infrastructure, to cut tax rate way lower, and says he can eliminate
$19 trillion debt in eight years. .... Folks, what is missing here? His brain?
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Yep, we have seen that it saves lots of money (doubling the national debt in 8 years?) to piddle endlessly using military half measures in multiple nation building attempts for decades. Cheaper yet, is just occasionally knocking off various "high level" evil bad guys with drones or missile strikes in various undemocratic foreign nations and hoping for change. ;)
 
ocean515 said:
The economic power of the United States is significant.

Rather than follow policies that stifle the economy, as has been the case for years under Obama, and will be the case under Hillary Clinton, a healthy and growing economy will provide significant revenue increases that can be used to fund these initiatives.
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What better way to get that economy pumping than to borrow and invest in fighting more foreign wars? ;)
 
Reed95 said:
Donald Trump calls for military spending increase - CNNPolitics.com

Trump wants now to significantly increase spending on military too. He also wants to spend a huge amount on infrastructure, to cut tax rate way lower, and says he can eliminate
$19 trillion debt in eight years. .... Folks, what is missing here? His brain?
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It's just the typical lie Republican candidates sell the base. Of course, the base knows it's all a lie. They care even less about deficits than they accuse the Democrats of. They just want lower taxes. But there they seem to be profoundly ignorant. They don't seem to realize that it's always the best-off people who seem to get tax cuts under Republicans.


Evidence:


ocean515 said:
The economic power of the United States is significant.

Rather than follow policies that stifle the economy, as has been the case for years under Obama, and will be the case under Hillary Clinton, a healthy and growing economy will provide significant revenue increases that can be used to fund these initiatives.
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Fairy tales.

Just repeat the fairy tale and vote for another idiot promising it to you, even though it never ever seems to work out that way. Laffer drew a curve on a napkin, and somehow, the GOP has convinced its base that a curve actually means that you can always generate more revenue with tax cuts.

That only happened twice:

1. The package that dropped the top rate from 90% to the 70%s

2. The package that dropped it again down to the 50%s.



Every other time it's crashed revenues. Hence Reagan had to scramble to raise taxes back up. Hence, Kansas created a budgetary disaster. Hence, Bush's increased deficits without helping the economy. (Before you lie, note that 2007-08 shows the real economy. Prior numbers reflect the bubbles, not some policy results)
 
ocean515 said:
The economic power of the United States is significant.

Rather than follow policies that stifle the economy, as has been the case for years under Obama, and will be the case under Hillary Clinton, a healthy and growing economy will provide significant revenue increases that can be used to fund these initiatives.
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A lower tax rate can magically stimulate the economy to a full growth, and solve all the spending and debt problems, that has never been proven in the recent history. That's just rhetoric used by candidates to win voters.

The problem is that most of the other candidates try to use this line of rhetoric in a way more or less logical, or coherent. Not Trump. He doesn't know what logic or coherence is. :lol:
 
apdst said:
The democrats raised taxes and still doubled the debt. Obviously, the Democrats's plan didn't work.
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The deficit and debt numbers are indeed huge. Here is a reminder: Obama inherited from Bush the Great Recession, and the war.
 
Reed95 said:
The deficit and debt numbers are indeed huge. Here is a reminder: Obama inherited from Bush the Great Recession, and the war.
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What was the debt when Obama took the reins?
 
apdst said:
What was the debt when Obama took the reins?
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You tell me. "The democrats raised taxes and still doubled the debt." You must have numbers.
 
Reed95 said:
You tell me. "The democrats raised taxes and still doubled the debt." You must have numbers.
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You didn't know that?

The debt wasn't 20 trillion bucks when Obama got elected.
 
To be fair Obama was forced to keep the bush tax cuts in place (who also doubled the debt)
 
Reed95 said:
A lower tax rate can magically stimulate the economy to a full growth, and solve all the spending and debt problems, that has never been proven in the recent history. That's just rhetoric used by candidates to win voters.

The problem is that most of the other candidates try to use this line of rhetoric in a way more or less logical, or coherent. Not Trump. He doesn't know what logic or coherence is. :lol:
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Lower tax rate?

I wrote that an end to policies that have stifled economic growth, as has been the case for years under Obama, and will be the case under a Hillary Clinton Presidency, will lead to a healthy and growing economy. The added revenue from that growth will help fund these initiatives.

Since you can't seem to even get your comment to my post straight, I'm compelled to believe you aren't a good judge of coherency.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Who had congress then?
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Who's got Congress now?

Funny how the only time the buck stops with the prez is when that prez is a Dem. When there's a Republican in the WH his wars and deficits are then the Dem Congress's fault.

The days of cons 'self responsibility' is long dead.
 
Reed95 said:
The deficit and debt numbers are indeed huge. Here is a reminder: Obama inherited from Bush the Great Recession, and the war.
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Thats a typical cop out to take. He may have inherited the great recession yeah, but the war... you're really going to use that argument ?
 
apdst said:
You didn't know that?

The debt wasn't 20 trillion bucks when Obama got elected.
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As a matter of fact, I did know. I clearly knew it was big then, and it is even bigger now.

But the point here is, as presented in OP, Mr. Trump has this "he can do it all" plan, including elimination of $19 trillion debt in eight years. Is this in any way rational? Or totally wacky?
 
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