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timeletsС рациональной точки зрения, мнение избирателей сейчас не играет роли. Зато законодательные действия Конгресса очень важны, потому что определяют приоритеты бюджета на следующий год: налоги, пенсии, медицина, военные расходы, проценты за госдолг.
Вот что предлагал Обама:
Пока Трамп и Конгресс занимаются обещаниями; конкретных предложений нет. При этом Трамп зачем-то устраивает встречи с избирателями и воюет с прессой. Эти действия не имеют смысла, если приоритеты расставлены рационально. Такое ощущение, что он борется за политическое выживание, а не за конкретные решения.
Вот что предлагал Обама:
Пока Трамп и Конгресс занимаются обещаниями; конкретных предложений нет. При этом Трамп зачем-то устраивает встречи с избирателями и воюет с прессой. Эти действия не имеют смысла, если приоритеты расставлены рационально. Такое ощущение, что он борется за политическое выживание, а не за конкретные решения.
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Date: 2017-02-18 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-18 11:14 pm (UTC)WALLACE: Mr. Trump, your proposed tax cut would add $10 trillion to the nation's debt over 10 years, even if the economy grows the way that you say it will. You insist that you could make up for a good deal of that, you say, by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse.
TRUMP: Correct.
WALLACE: Like what? And please be specific.
TRUMP: Department of Education. We're cutting Common Core. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're bringing education locally. Department of Environmental Protection. We are going to get rid are of it in almost every form. We're going to have little tidbits left but we're going to take a tremendous amount out.
We have various other things. If you look at the IRS, if you look at every single agency, we can cut it down, and I mean really cut it down and save. The waste, fraud, and abuse is massive.
Larry Kudlow, great guy, everybody respects him, said my plan for taxes and tax cutting is the best by far of everybody.
WALLACE: But, Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, your numbers don't add up. Please put up full screen number four. The Education Department, you talk about cutting, the total budget for the education department is $78 billion.
And that includes Pell grants for low-income students and aid to states for special education. I assume you wouldn't cut those things. The entire budget for the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, $8 billion.
TRUMO: OK.
WALLACE: The deficit this year is $544 billion. That's more than a half trillion dollars. Your numbers don't add up, sir.
TRUMP: Let me explain something. Because of the fact that the pharmaceutical companies -- because of the fact that the pharmaceutical companies are not mandated to bid properly, they have hundreds of billions of dollars in waste.
We don't bid properly. We don't have proper bidding procedures. The reason we don't is because they take care of all of the senators, all of the congressman, and they don't bid. They don't go out to bid. WALLACE: Mr. Trump...
TRUMP: Take a look -- excuse me. You are talking about hundreds of billions of dollars...
WALLACE: No, you are not.
TRUMP: ... if we went out to the proper bid. Of course you are.
WALLACE: No, you're not, sir. Let's put up full screen number 2.
You say that Medicare could save $300 billion a year negotiating lower drug prices. But Medicare total only spends $78 billion a year on drugs. Sir, that's the facts. You are talking about saving more money on Medicare prescription drugs...
TRUMP: I'm saying saving through negotiation throughout the economy, you will save $300 billion a year.
WALLACE: But that doesn't really cut the federal deficit.
TRUMP: And that's a huge -- of course it is. We are going to buy things for less money. Of course it is. That works out...
WALLACE: That's the only money that we buy -- the only drugs that we pay for is through Medicare.
TRUMP: I'm not only talking about drugs, I'm talking about other things. We will save $300 billion a year if we properly negotiate. We don't do that. We don't negotiate. We don't negotiate anything.
В известном письме ведущих экономистов говорилось
[Trump] has lowered the seriousness of the national dialogue by suggesting that the elimination of the Environmental Protection Agency or the Department of Education would significantly reduce the fiscal deficit. A credible solution will require an increase in tax revenue and/or a reduction in spending on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or Defense.
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/EconomistLetter11012016.pdf
Но кто ж будет слушать экономистов? Компетентность - это предрассудок.
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Date: 2017-02-18 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-19 02:55 pm (UTC)Social Security и Medicaire Трамп обещал не трогать - обещание, которое отдельные демократы хорошо помнят.
Расходы на оборону он обещал увеличить.
Выход один - обанкротить страну, попутно набивая карманы себе и своим друзьям.
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Date: 2017-02-19 08:28 pm (UTC)