The funny thing is, as long as we have fire departments and police departments and highway departments, we have public management of goods and services. We have socialism. I can't tell if Trump and the GOP are signalling an all-out assault on Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and other human services providers with all of this talk of "stamping out Socialism", but for most of his public life, Donald Trump has benefitted from and advocated for a certain level of socialism. It's not either or... it's a spectrum.
Hell, the Troubled Assets Relief Program under Hank Paulson and George W Bush was about as Socialist as it gets. It seems to me that GOP is promoting Mercantilism... strip away quality-of-life spending and instead, actually tax the population to funnel funds back to the larger corporations to backline their riskier bets. And not in a way that promotes innovation and development, but almost exclusively for said corporations to distribute their proceeds back to shareholders. 83% of the revenue savings recognized by corporations in the corporate income tax cuts has been paid out in dividends and buybacks. 83%!!! With the cost of a $1.5T unfunded deficit! And sadly, while they talk a good game while in opposition, Democratic leadership seems every bit as committed to the Plutocracy.
I can't even look my kids in the eye anymore.
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