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Name something Trump did that improved the economy.

Economists agree: Trump, not Obama, gets credit for economy | TheHill

Economists agree: Trump, not Obama, gets credit for economy

like I said, get away from this subject. stick to calling him names like a child. because if you talk policy you will lose. bigly.

I see you like quoting economists.

Economists Say The Trump Tax Plan Will Have Disastrous Consequences
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnth...ll-have-disastrous-consequences/#295141934209

Line up all of the economists end to end, and they will all point different directions.

So, what has Trump done?
 
wow. stick to calling him a dumb racist. don't go down the road where actual facts matter. you will get destroyed. The left is doing a great job of keeping the amazing economy off the headlines. because they know if it continues they are screwed. anyway, I'll post some articles for you.

LOL, and yet, you can't post anything, because he has done nothing. Do you right wingers know how dumb you look when you post such obvious nonsense?

It's hysterical, attacking others with stupid chilidish name calling and then making a post that shows that really fits you
 
Line up all of the economists end to end, and they will all point different directions.

So, what has Trump done?

Nothing, of course, other than promise tax cuts to big corporations- a shortsighted tactic that is going to eventually blow up in their face.

And as far as economists not agreeing, that's true for many things. But the idea that trickle down economics doesn't work is not one of them. No serious economist in this country, or in the world, actually thinks trickle down economics works. But hey, when have what a bunch of educated people and experts in a particular subject think ever stop the GOP? All they need is Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. The rest of the eggheads can go suck an egg.
 
Control yourself!!!!

From your CNBC article:

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Maybe read beyond the headlines!??

Right wingers don't bother, they just want headlines that tell them what they should think. And we have all seen the trolls that do nothing but copy and paste links and can't make any arguments of their own. Why people like that bother with forums is beyond me
 
Name something that Donald Trump, 45th. president of the United States of America, did that has improved the economy.

You're kidding, right? You don't know?

Just off the top of my head:

  • Tax cuts.
  • Regulation roll backs.
  • Pulling out of bad trade deals.
  • Coaxing companies to return to the US.
  • Promoting an overall pro business climate that improves confidence and therefore investment.
  • With the Paris Climate Accord, Keystone Pipeline and offshore drilling, establishing the principal that environmentalists will not be allowed stand in the way of America's energy needs and economic progress.
  • Along with Gorsuch, a whole raft of conservative judicial appointments, which is pro-economy, pro-business.
 
Wonderful. His campaign was not to "obliterate" the economy, and he didn't. Now, what actions has he taken that has resulted in an improved economy?

Name something that Donald Trump, 45th. president of the United States of America, did that has improved the economy.
His campaign rhetoric was action enough or are you going to move the goalposts now?
 
Name something that Donald Trump, 45th. president of the United States of America, did that has improved the economy.

He got elected, which gave the business community greater confidence in a pro-business approach form the gov't. Most of the credit goes to a more conservative/pro-business Congress giving the business community additional confidence in pro-business or at least not anti-business legislation being passed. Having Pres. Trump in the Oval Office just increases the likelihood of that legislation getting signed.
 
Other than momentary fluctuations I just don’t think Presidents have that much effect on the economy, for better or worse.

And that's why to this very day the economy of Venezuela and the USA are nearly identical?
 
Other than momentary fluctuations I just don’t think Presidents have that much effect on the economy, for better or worse.

Of the few things a president can do to affect the economy... Trump certainly did, and rather significantly. It seems just the idea of him being pro-business affected the psychology in the business of America.
 
You're kidding, right? You don't know?

Just off the top of my head:


  • 1
  • Tax cuts.
    2
  • Regulation roll backs.
    3
  • Pulling out of bad trade deals.
    4
  • Coaxing companies to return to the US.
    5
  • Promoting an overall pro business climate that improves confidence and therefore investment.
    6
  • With the Paris Climate Accord, Keystone Pipeline and offshore drilling, establishing the principal that environmentalists will not be allowed stand in the way of America's energy needs and economic progress.
    7
  • Along with Gorsuch, a whole raft of conservative judicial appointments, which is pro-economy, pro-business.

1. Which haven't kicked in yet, and certainly didn't affect the economy a year ago.
2. Lack of effective regulation of the mortgage industry led to the recession in the first place.
3. Which "trade deals" have been ended again?
4. Please, pretty please, come back to the US... really effective "action"
5. Specifically....
6. Ah, sure, let's simply ignore conservation in the name of conservatism... The US is the only country to not approve the Paris Accords. And the cause and effect relationship of that established principle is...
7. Those conservative judges have made what decisions that have affected the economy?
 
Name something that Donald Trump, 45th. president of the United States of America, did that has improved the economy.



By Trump doing nothing through 2017, and letting what was established under Obama continue through 2017, the economy continued to improve through 2017. Now that his tax plan that gives away a few trillion to the rich and the corps, that will have a negative impact on both our revenue and the debt as the next years roll in.
 
And that's why to this very day the economy of Venezuela and the USA are nearly identical?

That is actually a good example. If you make Maduro the President of the US, the US will still be the US. Our economy won’t become like the Venezuelan economy just because we switched presidents.

Now, I don’t know enough about the power the Venezuelan President yields to know what would happen to them if Trump became their President, but in the US the economic influence of the President is minimal.
 
Of the few things a president can do to affect the economy... Trump certainly did, and rather significantly. It seems just the idea of him being pro-business affected the psychology in the business of America.

Those psychological influences are only temporary. Over the long run the market reflects its true value.
 
That is actually a good example. If you make Maduro the President of the US, the US will still be the US. Our economy won’t become like the Venezuelan economy just because we switched presidents.

Now, I don’t know enough about the power the Venezuelan President yields to know what would happen to them if Trump became their President, but in the US the economic influence of the President is minimal.
You also have to keep in mind that with Venezuela, the state under Chavez seized most of the oil industry, which is a major contributor to its economy. He also consolidated political power in the federal government, and encouraged corruption as part of that process. To make matters worse, the price of oil plummeted, and Chavez had spent years pissing off one of the biggest consumers of oil on the planet (the US).

The end result is that when Chavez died, Maduro was in a unique position to do tremendous damage to the Venezuelan economy. He and his buddies could skim off lots of oil money still coming in; they could inflate the currency for their own benefit; they antagonized the US, which may have responded by fostering opposition movements -- which, while justified, are unpopular and destabilize the nation.

It would take years of constant moves towards autocracy for an American President to have anything like that kind of direct influence over an economy. E.g. the Fed may be appointed or fired by the President, but firing a bunch of Fed governors before they inflated the currency would be politically costly. It's rather unlikely that Congress will agree to nationalize the American branches of Exxon, Shell, BP, and every other major oil company. Thus, the kind of damage Trump can do is limited compared to what Maduro can, and has, done to Venezuela.
 
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