Lowering corporate taxes was the positive here.
Some reality:
We're up to our ears in debt and unfunded liabilities. $150 Trillion +
Let that sink in for a minute.
Here's some stats, real ones, not the ones the media and government report- and constantly change how they report to paint a better picture of our economy:
Inflation, Money Supply, GDP, Unemployment and the Dollar - Alternate Data Series
And here's a good debt clock ticker with other good metrics:
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time
Please check it out before replying to this post.
So we are a runaway train of debt and unfunded liability. We can keep printing paper and propping up this losing nation as long as we are the sole superpower- which means we MUST ensure the petro dollar is pegged to our federal reserve notes, we must massively fund our military and we must play shady geopolitics to continue this dog and pony show.
Or we can make genuine policy change to start back on a virtuous and successful path.
Here's a short list, much more needs to be done but this absolutely needs to be done yesterday:
1) End the war on drugs
2) Divest public education- in so far as allowing vouchers for private schooling for those who wish to utilize it. Force public schools to produce critical thinkers or die off. This means completely changing our education system from top to bottom. The Preussian style system of churning out factory workers is obsolete, but we cling.
3) Deregulate every single area of the market to the most minimum regulation and licensing necessary.
4) Cut the corporate tax rate
5) Term limits for congress. No more career politicians advocating this crony capitalism we have going. We need raw free market capitalism!
6) anyone employing illegal aliens gets stiff penalties. I mean $100K first offense on up to hard jail time.
7) get the unemployed back working. Real unemployment is about 24%, that's insane!
8) reignite our space exploration programs. No more NASA working on global warming, Errr global cooling, errr climate change BS. Pure exploration with the goal of finding and exploiting resources near our planet.
9) gut the federal government. Massive, absolutely gargantuan overhaul. All alphabet agencies cut by 75%.
10) No more aid or money to any other country in this world unless they play ball with trade agreements that are in our favor by a large margin.
11) Get illegal immigration under control. We need to be picky about who we let in. Tangible Skills and the desire to assimilate into American culture are at the top of the list.
12) We need a renaissance in journalism. The media is made up of a bunch of opinion pushing agenda biased talking heads. The press must be held to a standard of ethics that has long been abandoned.
13) Flat tax.And not a flat percentage but an actual flat sum tax for every individual. Pay your share. It's rediculous that there are folks who don't have a dime in the game but still get the same voting power and have equal say over our collective futures when they contribute nothing.
That's a short list. We prop up the world militarily and they talk shit about us every day. Cut them off. Protect yourselves if you hate us so much.
We prop up the world monetarily in every way you can imagine. They hate us in spite of it. Cut them off and force them to play our game or make life hard for the . Berserker style foreign policy.
Reinvigorate the military. It was gutted by Obama and it's a travesty. We need to stop with the PC bullshit and create lean mean men like Smedley Butler who thought for himself and was a true warrior.
Subsidies need to be reighned in across the board. Can't compete and be profitable- innovate and find a way to, your getting cut off.
No more "too big to fail" EVER! Can't innovate and make a profit- die off and others will innovate. We will move forward again instead of stagnating.
We also need to reinvest in manufacturing here in the USA. This can only happen if we deregulate and incentivize companies to do business here.
We need to fix healthcare- and the elephant in the room is illegal aliens. Sure you pay $1.00 for a head of lettuce because Juan is picking it, but then you turn around and pay 100 fold that in taxes and healthcare costs for Juan, all the while he sends his money to his family in Mexico or El Salvador taking it from our economy, and then he starts a franchise family here that further takes advantage of this nations benefits.
