Friday, August 05, 2016

LOL! The Republican platform is empty of promise.

There are those promoting the idea that Republicans are absent of a real economic strategy. The answer is to adopt the decades  long Democratic economy.

LOL! Finally, the Republicans admit their economic strategy destroys the American economy requiring infusions of government debt to recover from the looted Middle Class.

"Drip trickle" and having an economic strategy that robs from the poor and gives to Wall Street doesn't work. Amazing.

August 5, 2016
By Jackie Calmes

...But some common ideas (click here) suggest their proposed road map for the party:

- Reject additional tax cuts for those making more than $250,000 a year, but expand breaks for low- and middle-income workers through tax credits for children, the earned-income tax credit or a new wage subsidy that would provide a guaranteed minimum income.

Promote the benefits of global trade agreements, but help displaced workers.

- Rule out privatizing Social Security and Medicare, and reassure workers they will be exempt from cost-cutting.

- Acknowledge that the Affordable Care Act is here to stay, but push for market-oriented changes.

- Disavow mass deportations and promote the economic benefits of legalizing longtime workers who are in the country illegally, but reduce the legal entry of less-skilled immigrants.

“What we have going on right now, and Trump’s position in the Republican Party, makes this recalibration that much more important, that much more urgent,” said Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah.

“Some within the party,” he added, “have been all too willing to wear the label of the Republican Party as being the party of Wall Street, or the party of the top 1 percent.”...