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Originally Posted by hawkeye2009
Yet these same idiots will vote for another "Obama" in 2016, assuring thier economic misery. It used to be that people voted for a POTUS that would help the nation. Now, idiots vote for a "leader" that will assure thier economic misery.
The very policies that Obama promotes are contrary to economic growth, which will provide jobs and thus get millenials out of thier parent's basements. Let's see............
1. lower corporate taxes
2. corporate consumption tax
3. lower income taxes
4. allow energy exploration on federal lands
5. stop the war on coal
6. repeal Obamacare
7. national right to work act
8. repeal/renegotiate NAFTA and China most favored nation trade status
9. force all EPA regulations to be passed through Congress
10. ban class action suits
11. national right to work act
12. balanced budget amendment
Gee...................... Obama is opposed to all of those things!
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1. Corporations are already hoarding trillions of dollars on the sidelines. What makes you think lowering their taxes would have them spend or invest that extra money instead of hoarding even more cash at the expense of the Treasury?
2. Consumption taxes in general are regressive and promote an underground economy.
3. We already experimented in the 2000s with lower income taxes. They didn't produce the jobs promised and turned surpluses into deficits.
4. We already do this.
5. There is no war on coal but what you want is relaxation of air pollution standards that harm people.
6. Obamacare does many good things for people and saves the government money. It also isn't an economic hinderance.
7. Right to work acts are designed to lower pay and worker protections. This is why corporations fight so hard to pass them. Hint, they're not doing it for the benefit of the workers. That's the last thing we need.
8. The u.s. should be more aggressive with china.
9. The EPA has done a remarkable job lowering air and water pollution. Adding the burden that regulations must be approved by Congress, means no regulations would be passed. That's backward policy.
10. Class action suits have a positive purpose. It doesn't pay for me, or anyone else,to sue a company because they cheat me out of ten dollars. So, the company gets away with cheating. Class action suits stop the cheating by allowing many who have been cheated $10 to sue as a group.
11. Same as 7.
12. Balancing the budget during a recession causes depressions. It also prevents government from running deficits during emergencies. We couldn't have won WWII had we had a balanced budget requirement.
Your list is merely right-wing talking points, that throw us back to the labor abuses and environmental abuses that existed 100 years ago. They have no economic merit. Obama is opposed to those bad ideas precisely because they are bad ideas.