WILL THE REPUBLICANS EVER GET REAL WITH THEIR CAMPAIGN PROPOSALS

...Crazy Ted Cruz

 

One must admit that being bazaar is far more entertaining than being realistic.

 

Some of you may have caught Jeb Bush’s comment at the last GOP debate saying that the “Hillary Clinton camp would be ‘high-fiving’ one another over the anti-immigration rhetoric coming from some Republicans.”  That was definitely a very true statement.

 

But all that talk from Donald Trump and Ted Cruz about deporting 11 million illegal immigrants and those other bazaar statements from Dr. Ben Carson, they are not the real issues that the Republicans should be concerned about.

 

Once these ump-teen GOP candidates are done beating each other up, whomever survives is going to have to sell the public their unreasonable proposals for running the nation, if they really want to win the White House.

 

If you consider some of the strange tax plans that are being proposed, one would find it hard to call anyone of these politicians as being intelligent and being real “conservatives”.

 

As an example, Donald Trump’s will have a very tough time in supporting his not wanting to raise the minimum wage because he claims the US has wages that are too high.  Yes, he compares the US competing with China, and US wages are too high to compete. 

 

Well, the average wage for a worker in China is $10,000 per year.  I doubt that here in America we will ever be able to compete with China, Vietnam or Indochina with lower wages such as that.  Hillary would devour “The Donald” in a debate if he seriously tried to defend continuing today’s US wage stagnation as “a way to compete with China”.

 

How in the hell can Trump say he wants to raise incomes and wages, while calling a minimum wage increase “counterproductive” ?

 

Dr. Ben Carson is also against raising the minimum wage because he says that it causes more unemployment. 

 

However, according to 600 economists, including 7 Nobel Prize winners, Dr. Carson is totally wrong.  They all have stated that increases in the minimum wage have little or no negative effect on unemployment, even during times of weakness in the labor market.  In fact, research suggests that a minimum-wage increase could have a simulative effect on the economy.

 

But what if it turns out to be Ted Cruz as the choice for the GOP?  Well, the Ted Cruz tax plan has a serious revenue shortfall and it creates even more national debt.   

 

If Marco Rubio were to be the choice, his ideas like removing all the tax on capital gains, that just shows how unworkable the plan is and that it simply favors the rich.

 

If all of these tax plans are not modified, they will eventually be shown as the conservative follies that they really are today.

 

Oh, and Ted Cruz also says that he would let the Bank of America “fail”. 

 

Now I am no fan of the big banks, but when big banks fail, that just doesn’t harm the leaders of these largest banks.  It means that it would have a devastating effect on all the average working American depositors and on the US economy.   This does however, make Ted Cruz look like the heartless ideologue he actually is, where he should instead be in favor of breaking up big banks to stimulate competition and prevent a replay of 2008.

 

Many of the Republicans also keep saying they want to repeal Dodd-Frank. 

 

This comment always brings on lots of audience applause, but no one is talking about what should replace it.  Just like their wanting to repealing Obamacare. 

 

If you want to take away health care from 17 million Americans, you had better have a reasonable replacement.  It’s the same with Dodd-Frank.  Dodd-Frank came about because there were no functional regulations on the banks.  Because of that lack, we had to go through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.  At some level, even the Republicans have to agree to some level of acceptable regulation.

 

The Republicans keep trying to sell the idea of gutting and shrinking the government while increasing military spending.  I’m sorry, but I have yet to see how that would work….?  They say don’t reduce benefits to Social Security or Medicare, but cut federal spending.  OK, just where do we do that?

 

Democrats have always been better than Republicans in offering more realistic and workable proposals, and this year is no different.  Most of what Hillary and even Bernie Sanders are proposing could work for both a primary election and a general election.  That is not the same for those in the GOP.  Right now, with some of the more reasonable proposals from candidates such as John Kasich, and Jeb Bush, these are pretty much being ignored, as the polls are showing.  It’s the far-out proposals from Carson, Trump and Cruz that are being listened to by conservative and religious Republican voters.

 

If this keeps up, we are going to see the first woman US president sitting in the White House.

 

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