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You have to get over what "party" I am in dude....it discounts your points. I am truly independent. I have had business too - and as I said before - we are the ONLY first world country that burdens our businesses with providing HC to employees. Its insane. Our in-country COGS carry the cost of HC while imports don't - so that is what a 35 percent spread right there. There is no sane reason to do it this way - other than - what I can see - is GOP resistance to creating what would be a much more business favorable HC delivery structure. ​

Ahh..calling an error a victory...Bravo! I am not really worked up over labels like left, right, green, red...whatever - I look for policies and what results they produce.... Right now we have 5 percent unemployment, GDP growth steady and around 2 percent, household leverage has dropped dramatically, we do not have kids getting killed over in the middle east, gas and energy prices are low, inflation is low. The deficit is back to historical rates - but still not balanced. Illegal residence down during the last 8 years from 12M to 11M. Crime - although ticked up - is still at historical lows. The stock market is at an all time high. Income inequality is still awful and sectors of America have been left behind. College costs too much and health care costs and delivery stink. Those are the metrics that the DT era starts with - let's see how he does.

And Trump got fewer than all... If you are going to use numbers as basis for a position.....

What is your personal experience with the ACA? If everyone has been affected...I have not noticed it. We pay twice as much for less coverage than every other first world country - the ACA is not the cause of the cost - the same cost structure existed before the ACA. The ACA is primarily to provide a manner for the uninsured to get something. If you want to fix it - you are going to have to structurally change the delivery system and repealing the ACA doesn't do that. Why the business community has not revolted against the mandate to give coverage to employees - I do not understand - it is definitely NOT business friendly.

Listened to your prediction about the election....how did that work out for you

Plummetting...? She got more votes that DT

Worthwhile to watch the cabinet members coming together....give an idea on what is going to get pursued...

What issues would you like to see advanced in this once in a lifetime window?

Its a hard habit to break!

Oh...we are sticking completely to the thread title....starting.....right.....NOW!

I completely agree: The GOP owns the state houses, the house, the senate, the supreme court, the white house. They run it, they own it. The GOP can no longer blame liberals, blame BO, harp about celebrities and email servers. They must be chomping at the bit to FOCUS and enact their agenda. You guys need to turn your enthusiasm toward the guys you elected...you have vanquished the opposition...lack of accomplishment can only be attributed to your team at this point.

So the GOP/Conservative own the WH, Senate, House....and all you guys can do is....complain about liberals.....

Huh? HRC WON the popular vote... What are you smoking?

HC will win the popular vote

maybe he should log onto the ACA website like it says and see what the rate would be....

He would have a hard time making the practice roster on the Pats

Yes ...the millenials will surely screw up what their predessors have so carefully crafted.. My college kids and their friends seem to have their heads on pretty straight...not too worried.

He had pretty much the same game he always has. No pics and if evrything around him goes well...Bills win....if everything doesn't go well around him.Bills probably lose....he is what he is...a mediocre qb who won't lose a game for you but prbably won't win one either...

I am in ....TT not going to be a guy to make things happen....heck.watching Landry Jones look like what we want TT to be

Says the white guy....

You do realize that the biggest recent "legislative" SCOTUS actions were conservative. The Voting Rights Act and Campaign Finance reform were both bipartisan, overwhelmingly passed with near unanimous approval by both house and senate.....and Scalia saw fit to overturn them. I would say both were bad calls: The States that were under the VRA immediately went back to their nefarious ways and NC was just found to have blatantly targeting minorities in pinching voting access. Talk about Tyranny. CU has thrown gas on the pay for legislation we have today. Legislators now spend half their time raising money...Bravo Scalia...the Supreme Legislator...

What exactly would those be? Taxes? Balancing the budget? Health Care? Education? Maybe I should just review what the bills the GOP held congress has passed in the last two years on a quick refresher on their better ideas...

I had a lot of friends who went to Bona's - they tend to have jobs with a lot extra time - and from what I remember - besides stopping at the boat and halfway houses and hickey's tavern - was that they were pretty good at cutting and pasting...

Yeesh - rather than the histrionics (pretty sure HRC won't start the baby killing in the first term) - why not do this: Go back to the last 10-20 years and look at the bigger Scotus decisions: Same Sex marriage, voting, campaign finance, probably some worker v. business stuff. Some went conservative and some went liberal. Now that they are the rear view mirror - see what the ramifications of those decisions are and see whether liberal or conservative decisions led to better results. Here is the part about abortion I don't get: The "conservatives" have had the court for - what - 30+ years at least - Why did they not overturn Roe V Wade while they held the court?

Be nice if you comment on what I said. To answer your question I would say this is my observation: Things are a compromise - right - finding a balance. Supply side in my mind refers to the approach our government has taken since Reagan - Which is what is good for the money markets, good for big business, and good for the wealthy is good for the nation and this tide will raise all boats. Tax policy is just one component of this. We have loosened credit markets, loosened regulation on Wall Street, created Nafta and China trade agreements to help our big corporations compete. The "supply side" has done tremendously well for the last 40 years. The wealthy have gotten super wealthy, big corporations have done well, and the money industry has also done exceedingly well. This also has the collateral effect of improving much of the population of the US. I am probably one of those - life has been good to me catching the wave of the supply side. But for large swaths of America - "supply side" has left them in the dust. The trade agreements left them without a job or with a diminished job and cutting taxes doesn't help them at all. To me - this is the attractiveness of Trump - he is right - it is rigged - for the corporate, the wealthy and the powerful. legislation is written by them for them - supply side runs the country. ​Supply side doesn't give a hoot about those who have not benefitted from this policy - trust me. What kills me is Trumps economic policy is pretty much nothing but more supply side - and those who haven't benefitted from SS policies still love Trumpt - because he is a change agent. So to answer your question: Low taxes is just one element of "supply side" that exacerbates the wealth gap. The evidence is in - we live in it. The answer? I think guys like Robert Raich (who I am pretty sure most people here hate) has a simple proposition - take some of the benefits from supply side and use them to the people who have not benefitted from this policy = whether this be job training, child care, start up capital, college education....