Padawanbater2
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"Some political commentators like to describe fanciful proposals they view as wildly unrealistic as "puppies and rainbows" plans. Here's the New York Times's Josh Barro doing so about Marco Rubio's position on tax cuts.
But if Rubio's tax plan is "puppies and rainbows," then Donald Trump's may be best described as "unicorns and time portals." It's so far beyond the plausible that science fiction, rather than children's literature, feels like the right genre for capturing its essence.
"It's not even in the universe of the realistic," said Goldwein.
Here are a few ways of thinking about just how massive Trump's proposed tax cuts are:
But it's not just that Trump wants the biggest tax cut of any of the three candidates. It's that he's also promised to maintain funding for entitlements while increasing spending on the military. There's just no way to reconcile all that. Taken together, even the most sympathetic reading of Trump's plan dissolves into incoherence.
This does help explain, though, why Trump is so intent on having Mexico pay for the border wall — under his administration, America almost certainly couldn't afford it."
http://www.vox.com/2016/2/25/11110526/gop-tax-plans
"He's gonna close loopholes"...
Looks like Trump is the one offering up all the "free shit" pandering to right-wing retards who don't own a caluculator
But if Rubio's tax plan is "puppies and rainbows," then Donald Trump's may be best described as "unicorns and time portals." It's so far beyond the plausible that science fiction, rather than children's literature, feels like the right genre for capturing its essence.
"It's not even in the universe of the realistic," said Goldwein.
Here are a few ways of thinking about just how massive Trump's proposed tax cuts are:
- The projected US deficit for the next 10 years is $9.4 trillion. Passing Donald Trump’s $9.5 trillion tax cuts would more than double that total.
- The federal government is expected to bring in about $21 trillion in individual income taxes over the next 10 years. Trump’s cuts amount to a 45 percent reduction from that projection.
- Trump's proposed tax cuts amount to about 80 percent of the total budget for Social Security, the federal government’s largest program.
- America's defense budget — which funds the Army, Navy, Air Force, etc. — costs a little more than $6 trillion. In other words, you could completely dissolve the entire American military and still only be two-thirds of the way to Donald Trump's proposed tax cut.
But it's not just that Trump wants the biggest tax cut of any of the three candidates. It's that he's also promised to maintain funding for entitlements while increasing spending on the military. There's just no way to reconcile all that. Taken together, even the most sympathetic reading of Trump's plan dissolves into incoherence.
This does help explain, though, why Trump is so intent on having Mexico pay for the border wall — under his administration, America almost certainly couldn't afford it."
http://www.vox.com/2016/2/25/11110526/gop-tax-plans
"He's gonna close loopholes"...
Looks like Trump is the one offering up all the "free shit" pandering to right-wing retards who don't own a caluculator