What are Trumps indisputable promises kept besides helping the very wealthy w/a tax break?

@Pegasus61 I’m guessing you and I are getting our news from different tainted sources?

@Shewolfiie69 There is no untainted source. To know the real truth, you have to be there or dig through all of it and sort out the facts from the fluff. FOX is as bad as CNN and they are as Bad as MSNBC. Both sides are lying to us and hoping we will fall for it.

@Pegasus61 Yeah.....About that "Fair Trade" thing. I assume you mean fair to America and screw everyone else. America never makes a deal where they dont get more "Fairness". I'm grateful to Trump for pulling the US out of those deals and showing the world they can make deals without America. Now when you want a deal, come and make it on the worlds terms.

@whowasthatmaskedman If we were competing with the world without trade tariffs, there is no way any American manufacturer can compete with countries where the annual wage amounts to a few hundred dollars. That is why it is cheaper for companies to buy property over seas, build a factory, train workers all from scratch and still save money over keeping the jobs here. Tariffs level out the playing field a little to keep work and products here. Prior to WW1 most of the governments revenue was from tariffs, the 16th amendment was ratified by the states in 1909, before that, tariffs were it. Once the politicians got their fingers in the wallet of the people, they just never took them out. Dropping the tariffs on steel crippled the American steel industry in the 50s and 60s. Domestic steel producers could not compete with lower wages from Asia.

@Roadsterrider Every word of that is correct, just not the full story. The steel, mining and farm sectors all benefit from subsidies (compliments of the US tax payer) as well.. And those have allowed them to continue uncompetitve practices . The final straw being when America accuses other nations of cheating, while subsidizing less than America does.