"You can argue" does not BEGIN to convey what consummate bullshit this is.Opus131 wrote:The rich don't care about taxes because they can find ways to evade paying them, including migrating their business off shore, which is what Trump is trying to address with his tax cut (as part of his "America first" platform). The rationale behind his tax cut plans is precisely that of convincing multinational corporations that investing in the USA would be in their best interest. You can argue whether this would be the case but that's the underlying idea.
Sorry, but so long as "greed is good" is the sole modus operandi a business needs to remain "legitimate" then telling them they don't even have to pay all those taxes they legally owe will provoke precisely the same reaction that it always does - they'll sit their asses on it (especially in a low-demand climate like this one, with very little imminently self-interested reason to do anything else...even as they rail against any government efforts to raise demand...because it might affect their taxes ), utterly refuse to hire/expand/invest as their conservative enablers always promise they will, then the latter will yet again complain that their taxes/regulations/whatever obviously still haven't been cut enough, and that the only solution, as always, is more plutocratic mollycoddling (with a side of tough love for all those other losers, of course). And of course any of that hidden tax money we might have otherwise been able to force out of them - the only way any corporation will ever do anything in the larger public interest - is now completely out of our reach - which means, naturally, that the deficit is suddenly a huge issue again and we immediately need to balance the budget - more tough love ahoy! This is the only way this story has ever played out, and anyone who claims otherwise simply does not deserve a place within the larger discourse. Whoever still trots out trash like this in this day and age is the very definition of an "establishment shill".
Yup, the utter eradication of scores of government watchdogs and regulatory agencies, the lengthy diatribes against "loser" rank-and-file workers (as he has been repeatedly quoted by others in this thread, "the minimum wage is too high!"), the complete dismissal of the common decency - sorry, "political correctness" - which prevents higher-ups from treating employees like total shit...boy oh boy, the fact that he's criticized a handful of outfits for enriching themselves off of Latin America and South Asia (even, I repeat yet again, as he has done and continues to do the exact same fucking thing via his own businesses) sure as hell makes up for all that!...everything else Trump is pushing is against their interest which is why they hate his guts.
Give me a break - the one thing he always goes on about is his "brand", and especially considering what a boondoggle so many of his purely business-centric ventures have been over the years (yet again, if he'd taken the money he inherited and plopped it into an index fund he'd be richer than he is now), the fact that he, the very definition of a silver-spoon establishment figure, with the absolutely immeasurable help of the "hopelessly biased" media, has managed to reinvent himself as an anti-establishment "man of the people" is an absolutely enormous return on the investment he's made (largely with "OPM", of course) in this election, to the point that some of his subordinates have apparently been tooling around with the idea of starting his own TV network. As Trump himself quite correctly says, at this point he could shoot someone in the street and his supporters - including you, without a doubt - would still cheer; I don't care how the election turns out, but especially considering what a fetid piece of tabloid fodder he's been for decades before this, he is coming out way, WAY ahead when it's all over.If Trump loses the election he pretty much lost everything. That's a pretty big gamble to take regardless of his motives.
Feel free to yet again spin that fact (which, of course, you were just arguing against
) into yet another affirmation of his "genius", but sorry, I can only call it willfully subjecting oneself to being hopelessly conned, since the rest of the country will be left to deal with an even more indefensibly obstinate batch of Congressional Republicans, a white nationalist resurgence (not that you consider that a bad thing, you poor oppressed creature ) and a horrifically crippling blow dealt to both decorum and adherence to factual information...but hey, nothing personal, it's just business.
