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RE: Carrier stays in US
November 30, 2016 at 4:33 pm
Looks like a college degree lowers your employment prospects!
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RE: Carrier stays in US
December 1, 2016 at 7:54 am
(November 30, 2016 at 4:33 pm)Tonus Wrote: Looks like a college degree lowers your employment prospects!
Or does it just increase the feeling of entitlement?
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RE: Carrier stays in US
December 1, 2016 at 11:11 am
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2016 at 11:11 am by Faith No More.)
alpha male dateline=' Wrote: Remember, my point was that what's needed is redistribution that is acceptable to both parties. Your solution is that the GOP should suck it the fuck up and agree with you. I haven't believed you were legitimately attempting to engage since then.
That's pretty hard to do when the GOP is completely against any redistribution. If anyone even tries to broach the subject conservatives start screaming "class warfare" at the top of their lungs to shut the conversation down.
The democrats may not be the best at addressing income inequality, but the GOP has been actively seeking to make it worse. They just use issues like abortion and gay marriage to get rubes to vote against their own economic interests.
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RE: Carrier stays in US
December 1, 2016 at 11:19 am
In 4 years if GDP is up 4% annually, welfare claims are dropping faster under Trump than they rose under Obama, the REAL unemployment rate is down to where the FAKE one is now, peace breaks out in the middle east and in inner city neighborhoods with Democrat mayors, Trump puts a 'Souter' on the Supreme Court, Hillary allocutes to all charges in return for a Trump pardon (after declining Obama's), the rate of annual premium growth is <10% nationwide under TrumpCare® . . .
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
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RE: Carrier stays in US
December 1, 2016 at 11:42 am
We've now seen the corporate equivalent to negotiating with terrorists.
Threaten to move jobs, get huge tax breaks. In essence the people who actually pay taxes are now subsidizing these 1000 people. And of course Carrier is still moving jobs to Mexico.
Color me unimpressed.
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RE: Carrier stays in US
December 1, 2016 at 11:51 am
That's a pretty common tactic for businesses, but that might be all those years in NYC that make me biased. I can recall the constant griping in the daily papers as New York and New Jersey competed for businesses by offering all kinds of tax breaks and other incentives. If Trump does this on a federal level --or gets enough states to do so locally-- we could be looking at four years where the economy looks good as the government pumps large amounts of subsidies into businesses. If Trump manages not to trip all over his own feet --or brashly dismisses his gaffes to the delight of his support base-- and somehow manages to make people forget the growth of debt over the next four years, we could be looking at a landslide in 2020.
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