Comment by _heimdall
6 months ago
If this was passed in 2017 to go into effect during the next presidential term, wouldn't that only work as a time bomb for Biden's presidency if Trump didn't expect to win a second consecutive term?
Given the history of prior presidents winning 2 consecutive terms, it seems like Trump could have reasonably expected a 2022/2023 tax change to be his problem.
if you retain power, you can fix it. the US government currently has the significant problem that one party campaigns on the government being dysfunctional, so they do their best to make it so.
So.. criminal racketeering?
But what would trump have done if he retained the presidency and lost congress? That's also been pretty common over the last few decades if I'm mistaken, a president with one or both sides of Congress is reelected but Congress flips to the opposition party.
He would do nothing because his supporters believe misinformation and worship him.
Prices haven't gone down at all nor will bringing manufacturing to the US do this (likely causing them to go up) but his approval rating is 50%
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> But what would trump have done if he retained the presidency and lost congress?
Trump is blaming Biden for the obvious outcome of Trump's tarrif nonsense. What do you think Trump would have done?
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I would suppose that the Democrats would remove the policy regardless of who was in charge.
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This civic control correlation can simply have more to do with the most-white-supremacist Democrats switching to the GOP en masse and also simultaneously leaving multiethnic cities and school districts en masse after the 1960s. That self-selection left Republicans not a competitive amount of credibility or voter pool behind to work with. Your implication that policy dysfunction has ensued on that account rather than because of fiscal drain -- that's a separate topic. Individual states and individual cities have too many fiscal policy similarities and differences, overlapping, to responsibly compare in any online discussion.
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What makes California's government dysfunctional?
What about Detroit?
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No. It’s after re-election. Bad news late in your second term isn’t that big of a deal, unless you care about legacy.
Most presidents care about legacy, at least to me it seems like trump holds that as a higher priority than most.
Trump seems to care what people think today, every day. He doesn't seem like someone who puts a lot of thought into the future.
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>me it seems like trump holds that as a higher priority than most
Why?
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