So among the things he promised are....(politics warning)

The border wall, a trillion dollar infrastructure package, affordable and high quality healthcare for everyone, increased military spending, NO cuts to medicare and social security, tax cuts across the board, and the reduction of the national debt (he said elimination, but let's inject some realism).

So uh...with all the increased spending and decreased revenue...how does the debt reduction happen?

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TexChik · F

Stop lib interference , repeal obama care , get the tax code reformed ... make America attractive to business and then allow the economy to grow ... increasing tax revenue in the process

Dlrannie · 31-35, F

@TexChik Sounds wonderful but he doesn't appear to have the ability to achieve anything of consequence on the basis of his performance so far

Xuan12 · 31-35, M

@TexChik His party controls both houses of Congress already, and I hear he's also a master negotiator. Somehow they didn't get their repeal of the ACA through despite all that. And yeah, taxes were already addressed, he wants to lower them, reducing revenue. Making America attractive to businesses is nice, but pulling out of the TPP and NAFTA does the opposite of that, imposing more tariffs and trade barriers where they may have otherwise been fewer. What kind of company really wants that? I've never heard companies say they love how hard it is to trade internationally...well...not companies that weren't owned by communist governments anyway. And remember, to offset a 1% reduction of revenue, the taxable economy would have to grow by about 10%, and that's just to offset it. To actually increase it means it would need to grow by more than 10%.

FearfulHarmony49 · 22-25, T

What we need is restrictions on outsourcing. We really need to prevent companies from bringing people in on visas.

Xuan12 · 31-35, M

@FearfulHarmony49 I would support that idea alongside a commerce driven education program that would subsidize the cost of education for promising students entering high demand fields. Basically just using the student aid programs we already have, but focusing that aid a bit more toward fields that private sector indicates demand for.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@FearfulHarmony49 Nah, bringing people in on visas is a good thing. We suck up specialists from all over the world. Many people that have turned out to be tremendously innovative and provided huge benefits to our industries and economy arrived here on H1s.

At least that is how it's supposed to work.

Problem is that lately a few giant Indian outsources are gaming the system, flooding the lottery with applications, bringing in cheap engineering labor, and then exploiting the shit out them. This hurts everyone, including the hires.

As a start we should raise the minimum salary for H1s to a sensible level - somewhere in the 130-150k range - this ensures that only top grade specialists make it over here, and that companies only import people they actually need. 60k made sense in '89 when the program was started, but at this point it just results in a wave of low-quality talent that undercut American workers.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/06/us/outsourcing-companies-dominate-h1b-visas.html

FearfulHarmony49 · 22-25, T

@QuixoticSoul That works as well, if not better.