The following should convince all American voters to reject the Democrat Party this 2018 election season, solely on the basis of economic impact.
Nancy Pelosi pledges to repeal the Republican tax cuts. Really? What are the benefits of the tax cuts so far? Let’s look to published results.
National Review, 12/27,2017 | GOP Business Tax Cuts Force Other Countries to Compete
Business Insider, 12/22/2017 | Companies are rushing to announce special bonuses and pay hikes after the GOP tax plan
Washington Examiner, 1/14/2018 | Tax cuts drive business back to the Motor City
Investor’s Business Daily, 3/13/2018 | Federal Tax Revenues Hit Record Highs — Are Trump’s Tax Cuts Paying For Themselves?
Investor’s Business Daily, 2/7/2018 | Go Figure: Tax Revenues Climbed $18 Billion In First Month Of GOP Tax Cuts
GOP.com, 3/22/2018 | Millennials Are Thriving In The Trump Economy
What’s at stake?
When federal government oversteps the enumerated powers, there are undesirable consequences because the government is not a good investment beyond its core responsibilities.
We gauge the size of government by the budget: the bigger the budget, the bigger the government
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Governments are inherently fiscally inefficient because there is no profit, no capital formation. When the government needs more money it simply prints more money which then leads to inflation and the dollar buys less.
Most important of all is your freedom. The size of government is inversely proportional to our freedom.
Let’s review the accomplishments of this president in his first year in office.
From Newsweek Magazine, 1/20/2018 | TRUMP’S FIRST YEAR: HIS TOP 82 ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- 100 percent vote by UN Security Council to sanction North Korea.
- 41 percent decline in illegal southern border crossings
97,482 illegal immigrant arrests, 70 percent convicted of additional crimes, 52,169 expelled - Adopted a resolute policy on Afghanistan
- Advocated for practical tertiary education
- Advocated for skills-based immigration policies
- American companies now expanding rather than shipping jobs overseas
- Announced sanctions targeting Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
- Appointed a Transportation Secretary who is modernizing air traffic control
- Appointed an Education Secretary who is correcting abuses of Title IX
- Appointed an EPA administrator who has rescinded over 30 regulations
- Appointed an FDA director who is facilitating generic drug competition
- Appointed an Interior Secretary to improve forest management and expand users of public lands
- Approved the Keystone pipeline
- Called for international support of Iranian protesters
- Canceled school lunch program that failed to force children to eat unpopular foods
- Constructed test models of the border fence
- Convinced Japan and South Korea to increase defense spending
- Convinced NATO members to honor minimum financial commitments
- Decertified Iranian nuclear treaty and sent it to Senate as constitutionally required
- Designated North Korea as a state-sponsor of terrorism
- Eliminated prohibition on interstate health insurance sales
- Ended abuses of the student loan forgiveness program
- Ended forced provision of contraception by Catholic nunneries
- Ended requirement for state funding of Planned Parenthood
- Ended research into Y2K preparedness
- Ended rule requiring employers to report pay data by gender and race
- Expanded school-choice efforts
- FCC has begun to dismantle unnecessary Internet “Neutrality” regulations
- Foreign firms building plants and creating jobs in the U.S.
- Improved rules of engagement for military personnel in combat situations
- Initiated resistance “sue and settle” tactics against EPA
- Initiated sanctions on Venezuelan dictatorship
- Introduced regulatory budgeting requiring agencies to rescind two rules to issue a new one
- ISIS bombing ramped up from about 20 to 500 or more airstrikes per week
- ISIS ground campaign intensified; Raqqa captured, its fighters surrendering in large numbers
- Issued a National Security Strategy
- Kate’s Law passed House now pending in Senate
- Leveraged U.S. contribution to UN budget to force 5 percent budget cut and reduce staffs
- NLRB reversed rulemaking indirect employee control sufficient to be “joint employees”
- Nominated 60 judges, 21 confirmed, none yet denied
- Nominated a new Fed chief
- Nominated one Supreme Court judge, who was confirmed
- Obtained release of Aya Hijazi after three years in Egyptian prison
- Obtained release of Caitlan Coleman and husband from Haqqani
- Obtained release of UCLA basketball players from China
- Raised awareness of Opioid addiction crisis
- Recognized Jerusalem as Israeli capital and announced a plan to move U.S. embassy there
- Reduced excess size of two national parks in Utah
- Reduced permanent staff in all Cabinet agencies except VA, HS, and Interior
- Reduced White House staff by 110
- Repeal of ACA mandate included in tax change bill
- Requested increased funding for missile defense in face of North Korean and Iranian threats.
- Rescinded (temporarily) the Jones Act, facilitating speedier emergency shipments to Puerto Rico
- Rescinded 2015 Waters of the United States rule
- Rescinded ban drilling in the Arctic and coastal areas
- Rescinded coal mining ban on public lands
- Rescinded criminalization of accidental killing of migratory birds
- Rescinded Cuban cash giveaway
- Rescinded the “Clean Power Plan”
- Rescinded the “War on Coal”
- Rescinded threat to pull funds from schools that prohibit transgenders picking their bathrooms
- Rescinded Title IX “guidance letter” on sexual harassment
- Restored policy barring federal funding of abortions overseas
- Restoring military capability in the face of personnel shortages and equipment failures
- Revamped U.S. space program, assigning ambitious new objectives
- Revised rules for screening potential terrorist tourists
- Sanctioned Venezuela for human rights violations
- Sanctuary cities legislation passed House pending in Senate
- Signed 74 legislative bills (13 reversing executive orders) and 23 joint resolutions into law
- Signed comprehensive tax change bill containing most of the changes he proposed
- Signed legislation opening Arctic Natural Wildlife Reserve [ANWR] to oil drilling
- Signed legislation to expedite firing of incompetent VA officials
- Supreme Court largely upheld ban on selected travelers
- Taking steps to control the rogue Consumer Finance Protection Agency
- Targeted MS13 gang members for priority deportation
- The president’s lawyers announced a framework for restoring the separation of powers:
- Congress should cease delegating its legislative power to the executive branch
- Courts should stop rubber-stamping regulations and orders that lack the force of law
- Executive will end informal “guidance documents” that undermine due process
- U.S. energy production is on the upswing
- U.S. sorties and assisted forces reduced ISIS to 2 percent of the area controlled in 2016
- Unemployment is at 4.1 percent, a 17-year low
- Withdrew from Paris Climate Accord
- Withdrew from UNESCO (a warning to other wasteful, overstaffed UN agencies
Perhaps the crowning achievement to date is the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
