If you cut taxes, the environment for business necessarily gets worse over time because roads deteriorate, people are not as well educated, scientific research declines, along with about a million other things that businesses rely on.
“Fair pay and safe workplaces” sums it up. The rule, which Trump and the Republicans saw fit to repeal, stated that our government should contract with companies that have “a satisfactory record of integrity and business ethics.”
Tax cuts mean cuts to infrastructure, schools, health care, scientific research and all the things our government does to make our lives better — and to help our economy prosper.
Though TPP was killed by a long progressive fight that resulted in it not having the votes to pass Congress, of course, he took credit for killing it himself. So now that that’s over, how should our country trade with the world?
Reagan and both Bushes cut taxes for the rich and their corporations, promising that the "benefits" would "trickle down' to the rest of us. So did Kansas and Puerto Rico. How'd that work out for them -- and us?
This isn't the first time a Republican President posed as a working class hero. In 2002 George W. Bush pandered to Rust Belt voters by slapping a 30% tariff on imported steel.
Rebekah, Robert, and Diana Mercer at the 2014 World Science Festival Gala on April 7, 2014. Rebekah is one of 16 on Trump's transition team executive committee. Her father Robert is among Trump’s top financial backers Image from: Bloomberg News
While at Brietbart Steve Bannon didn't have to show a profit, just keep anti-Muslim billionaire Robert Mercer happy. His daughter Rebeckah is on Trump's transition team. Leaders of for-profit MSM are punished when their shareholders don't make money not when they fail the public.
