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Since Trump will be lying a lot about his economic record, here are 6 slides to have ready for debating your conservative friends. I'll start with a comparison against the last 7 Presidents on perhaps the most important variable, job creation, where Trump is in last place. 1/
The stock market was up more at this point in Obama's presidency than Trump's, about +70% vs. +40%. As recently as March, Trump was actually at 0%. 2/
Trump's pre-Coronavirus economic record in his first 3 years (2017-2019) compares unfavorably to the last 3 years of Obama (2014-2016) on job creation, budget deficits, the uninsured, and real (after-inflation) wage growth. The unemployment rate had been falling since 2010. 3/
Trump has lied repeatedly that his tariffs would be paid by China; they are in fact paid by American families, to the tune of about $1,300 on average in 2020 according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). 4/
Trump's record on healthcare doesn't hold a candle to Obama's. If Trump succeeds in repealing the ACA, the number of uninsured would jump by 20 million; as of mid-2019 there were about 2 million more uninsured under Trump, with millions more losing coverage with Coronavirus. 5/
Trump's corporate tax cuts mainly benefit the rich thereby making inequality worse, as the top 1% own over 50% of the stock, and the bottom 90% own about 12%. Measured through 2019, the bottom 50% got only 3% of the wealth gains during the Trump Administration. 6/
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