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How can it be reasonable to think corporate tax can be lowered to 15% and personal taxes lowered to who knows what, then the debt will be become lower.

The deficit has been reduced by 2/3rds under Obama but deficit is the number it takes to run the government programs and it is still running in the minus column.

What is the magic that's supposed to happen here? Collect less incoming monies and still pay off the debt. How's that work in your lives? Let's lessen your salary. Do your financial commitments decrease i.e. mortgage, loans? This trickle down crap needs to stop. It never has. I'm all for fiscal responsibility but there is also the cost of doing business. This administration is the biggest joke in history!

You make it sound so simple, lower spending.

Which one is going to be lowered? Social Security? Medicaid/Medicare? Military?

Aren't those the biggest budget spenders?

All of the polls show most voters and American citizens want the government to help with health care and other government programs even if you have to pay more in taxes,

preferably the richest at the top.

We are supposed to be a government of the people and if the people want more help with health care and the cost of living with the elderly and poor and middle class, then we should find a way to do it.

You have your brand of politics and I have mine, mine is shared by more people.

Calling having the top 1% pay more in taxes robbing Peter to pay Paul is more politics.

The constitution luckily is a living constitution and adjusts to the times.

If it did not, there wouldn't be a such thing as amendments.

Our economy does better when the middle class and lower are doing better financially and programs which help facilitate that is a good thing.

President Trump admitted he did not know much about NATO when he first called it “obsolete” on the campaign trail last year, he told the Associated Press.

“They had a quote from me that NATO's obsolete. But they didn't say why it was obsolete. I was on Wolf Blitzer, very fair interview, the first time I was ever asked about NATO, because I wasn't in government. People don't go around asking about NATO if I'm building a building in Manhattan, right?” Trump said to the AP, according to a full transcript published late Sunday.

The constitution luckily is a living constitution and adjusts to the times. If it did not, there wouldn't be a such thing as amendments.

The "populist tsunami" has faded on the shores of France.

Looks like Trump fizzled out too. Although I'm personally relieved that he's not ratcheting up the brinkmanship with Weirdo Fatty, he has opened himself to bad sex metaphors. Did the just spend several million on a drive by?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39638012?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

The Carl Vinson group diverts from NK.

Although I'm not sure what people are expecting from surface ships to begin with. When we shower North Korea with nukes, the missiles will be fired from a sub.

Walter Hinteler wrote:

The "populist tsunami" has faded on the shores of France.

Not necessarily. Le Pen may not win, but for the first time since de Gaulle founded the Fifth Republic, the winner of the election will be someone other than the two main parties.

In strategy and substance, the American public disagrees with the course that President Trump and congressional Republicans are pursuing to replace the Affordable Care Act with conservative policies, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Large majorities oppose the ideas at the heart of the most recent GOP negotiations to forge a plan that could pass in the House. These would allow states to choose whether to keep the ACA’s insurance protection for people with preexisting medical problems and its guarantee of specific health benefits.

Public sentiment is particularly lopsided in favor of an aspect of the current health-care law that blocks insurers from charging more or denying coverage to customers with medical conditions. Roughly 8 in 10 Democrats, 7 in 10 independents and even a slight majority of Republicans say that should continue to be a national mandate, rather than an option for states to retain or drop.

“All states should be required to do the same thing,” said Bayonni Handy-Baker of Killeen, Texas, who supports nationwide requirements on both preexisting conditions and minimum benefits for insurance plans. As the 25 year-old Army veteran and political independent reasoned, “when you have people picking and choosing what to cover, you have this system of holes and disruption and disorder.”

Beyond their criticism of GOP proposals for devolving health policy to the states, many Americans appear leery in general about a major overhaul to the health-care law often called Obamacare, with 61 percent preferring to “keep and try to improve” it, compared with 37 percent who say they want to “repeal and replace” it. Roughly three-quarters of Republicans prefer repealing and replacing the ACA, but more than 6 in 10 independents and nearly 9 in 10 Democrats favor working within its framework.

So now it seems that border wall isn't really important after all.

Not that Trump voters got conned, or anything.