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1. Trump Economy Has Not Been Kind to "Experts."

Here's one (this guy has been the U.S. Treasury Secretary, President of Harvard University, Chief Economist of the World Bank) who the Trump economy has made an ass of.
cnbc.com/video/2017/03/…
2. Here's another erstwhile U.S. Treasury Secretary (Obama had a knack for hiring these specimens) who shamelessly continues dissing Trump's approach even as he is interrupted by breaking news that it is working.
ijr.com/2018/07/111194…
3. And here's Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winning economist for NY Times, on Trump's election:
"If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.
So we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight."
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Fair Share of Taxes

Don't buy the socialist crap about who does and doesn't pay 'fair share' of taxes. The burden of taxes in the U.S. falls fairly and squarely on the upper income brackets.

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1. Paul Krugman has penned a fallacious article on "The Economics of Soaking the Rich" to suck up to and normalize Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's brain-fart about raising the marginal tax rate to 70-80%.
nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opi…
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Terrorists At The Border

MSM offers this as a defense for Democratic push to NOT fund the wall.

We spend $7+ Billion on TSA every single year. How many terrorists were caught at airports before we instituted TSA?

Dear MSM, how many is too many? How many did it take for 9/11?
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You know, the RW 'free trade' thick tanks advocating tax havens, "freedom" (no regulations like workers' rights or environmental protection), no welfare (no tax & no free healthcare).
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Treasury Releases Report on Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States

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