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  • BonSeff36

    Ponyboy,

    I few posts back you had high praise for Trump's economic policies and how they are affecting jobs, unemployment etc..

    I wanted to share this article with you and see what your take on it is, since you seem to be a supporter.

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    https://www.marketwatch.com/stor…

    Opinion: It’s official: The Trump tax cuts were a bust

    Lower taxes helped goose profits and stocks, but did little for jobs or the economy

    • With some of my Trump supporting family I've sent them graphs of unemployment, and GDP with the dates cut off. None of them know where it is that Trump came in.mathinc
    • If you actually look at the data it's basically a continuous path. The trends from the past 6 years weren't altered by Trump. But all his supporters want tomathinc
    • crow about his success. He basically ran the last mile of a marathon and they want to give him a gold medal. Tribalism.mathinc
    • They don't notice that all the indicators flatten out and lose momentum? =)zarkonite
    • GDP is where Obama had it, Trump just added trillions of debt and handouts to the wealthiest and corporations (good article)formed
    • The dumb ignorant imbred Trump supporters still love him.utopian
    • Also how the unemployment number was a "bullshit statistic" to them until Trump was elected. Now it's the golden truth. Or how black unemployment is somehowmathinc
    • attributable to Trump. Okay, then what policy was it that made that happen? No, fucksticks, ALL unemployment is low, that's why.mathinc

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