Posted on 02/13/2018 10:46:12 AM PST by Red Badger
While this is good news, there are some structural reasons that aren’t repeatable.
On the other hand hand, reform in the positive direction tends to take about 18 -24 months to really get going.
We should shut the government down more often!
“W” saw the deficit reduced from about 500 billion to 100 billion in four years after his tax cut in the early 2000’s - Trump should do at least as well......
“We should shut the government down more often!”
Yes, just think if we had a one week shutdown and actually kept the 2% in wages, instead of paying the workers for not working. Better still, let’s have a two week shutdown and pocket 4%. In so doing, we might even find some of the “workers” were not really needed at all! I mean the auto industry closes down production lines, and furloughs workers when they have too much unsold inventory! And as I see it, we have “unsold inventory” in the form of the national debt.
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