This Wall Street Journal article discusses the impact of Donald Trump’s economic policies should he become President. Specifically, Blinder discusses Trump’s ideologies for tax cuts for the rich, his immigration and international trade.
Trump, like most Republicans since Reagan, ascribes the large tax cuts for the rich economic policy. However, Trump feels his tax cuts must be bigger and would result in a $9.5 trillion net loss in revenue during a decade. That is twenty percent of the total federal revenue projected for the same period. This would increase the federal deficit significantly. Trump’s solution to this issue is to recoup this money from the Medicare drug budget. With the number of baby boomers utilizing this governmental service, it is highly likely that these budgetary realignments would mean that federal government, at some point, would be required to subsidize these discrepancies. It would be required to borrow these funds, thus increasing the national deficit. It is an asinine plan.
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Building a wall to prevent illegal immigration from Mexico and an illegal immigrant “round up” are economically unsound. The cost of constructing such a wall would cost approximately $10 million. Trump’s funding solution is to force the Mexican government absorb the cost. Not only is this laughable, but unenforceable. There is no evidence that this cost has a positive return on investment for the United States of America. The presidential candidate’s proposal for marshalling all illegal immigrants and deporting them would be very costly and significantly impactful to our nation’s economy. The cost of deporting three percent of the United States’ population would be exorbitant. The loss of employees willing to work unskilled, low-paying jobs that are essential to our country’s economy would be very
In the article “Trump outlines immigration specifics,” Jeremy Diamond and Sara Murray analyze Republican candidate Donald Trump’s latest immigration policy proposal and demonstrate how his unrealistic plan could cause more harm than good. For many years now, the topic of immigration has always been a problematic one and with reason. One side argues that immigrants are taking American jobs, while the other side maintains that immigrants are actually helping the US economy. While both sides rarely see eye to eye on multiple issues, one thing that they can both agree on is that the current US immigration system is, indeed, broken. Because of this issue, Trump has proposed an immigration plan that would require the US to build a wall along the
In the article “The Brutal Economic Truth Behind the Rise of Trump” Anthony Mirhaydari sides with Donald Trump and discusses how he is a good candidate. He argues that although he may be loud, obnoxious, and have very radical foreign policy ideals he still is not an awful choice. He brings up the quotes, “It's the economy stupid” which was coined by James Carville during Bill Clinton's political campaign while he was running for president. He states how people will gravitate and make their main decisions on the economic policies of each candidate. He understands the self interest in human nature and how people want to secure their own personal economic situation before they deal with foreign affairs such as the immigration problem. People will almost always vote for who will help out their economic situation the best and the author feels that Trump has a solid plan and a good grasp of what the problem is.
Analyzing texts is one of the most fundamental and key parts to drawing conclusions about them. Upon analyzing the two versions of the Prometheus myth and the consequent chapters of Genesis, it is quite clear that how one views each piece is subject to their previous knowledge. Today, it is much easier to read Prometheus objectively. It would generally be safe to assume that no one in proximity is a worshipper of Zeus. Reading Genesis is fairly different. Everyone in North America, and most other parts of the world, have at least a very general idea of what Genesis says, or is believed to say. In this essay, the understanding of differences in texts that should be similar will be explored. Although the two versions of the Prometheus and Genesis should essentially be the same, there are many differences within their respective plots and in the language used that make them contradictory and forces the reader to rely heavily on interpretation to try to combat these inconsistencies.
The article illustrates that how republican candidate, Donald Trump, wants to change the aspects of health care. As mentioned in the article, Trump wants to make vast decisions on health care and wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Wilensky, 2016). The Affordable Care Act was created in order to help individuals obtain insurance. The Affordable Care Act was created during Obama’s presidency and is a part of Obamacare. If Trump is elected, he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which can cause a variety of issues for those individuals who depend on it. There has also been a discussion about raising the Medicare eligibility age of 67, which would make it difficult for individuals who need the help before the age of 67. Individuals rely on the Affordable Care Act and Medicare because it allows them to have access to the
"I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great great wall on our southern border and I’ll have Mexico pay for that wall" ~ Donald J. Trump. Many remember Trump’s campaign promise of building a wall on the US-Mexico border, but what Mr. Trump neglected to notice was the many aspects that come into play when making such a dramatic decision. The idea behind the wall is to keep out illegal immigrants and cut down the amount of crime in the United States. It is easy to see why President Trump thinks the wall will benefit the country. Most of the drugs that come into the US are from Mexico, and the towns surrounding the border are some of the most crime-ridden in both the United States and Mexico. However, the wall impacts more than just the lives of
The border wall is an uncertain investment to many considering the price tag it holds, but if it is to limit illegal immigration and over time stop the trickle of illegals coming into America the payout would be well worth it. Anyone has the right to disagree with the current president and his policies, but it is rather difficult to deny to growing statistics that prove how illegal immigration is negatively affecting the U.S. America is in deep trouble right now with the great political divide that separates this country and everyone needs to come together and focus on one common goal which is persevering the greatness of the
Donald Trump’s Immigration Reform plan claims to 'Make America Great Again’. Trump wants to revive the nation with three core principles: a nation without a border is not a nation, a nation without laws is not a nation, and a nation that serves its own citizens is not a nation. With goals to put a wall across the southern border, enforce government laws, and improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans, Donald Trump is rallying supporters. However, with statements from Trump those view as racist and childish, many have concerns with his execution. People can’t help but to wonder if his plans or more complicated than he leads on, ineffective, or harmful to the economy. Is Trump’s plan unrealistic or does it live up to it’s headline-grabbing
In order for the President to keep such immigrants outside of the U.S., he is propositioning a border wall in which México’s government will have to pay. When Mexico found out about this, not only did they state that they would pay for no such thing, former President Fox made multiple videos stating that they would not pay for anything. Afterwards, Trump took this matter to Congress and is currently trying to get the U.S. government to pay for it. Building a wall with the best technology will not only be expensive, but it will also keep out intelligent people that can positively impact the world. One of President Trump’s goals as the new president is to build a wall near the southern
Because of, the horrid actions from the people of the free world is still seen today in our society. Sadly the generations before us lost their hearts and have never filled the void that separates the white community and the black community. A plethora of daily life was affected by slavery, Marriage dealing with people of color was found to be illegal. Being a slave, dealing with physical, verbal and mental attacks daily was not enough for the oppressing collective of people. The criminalization of marriage created a generational problem.
Did you know that it will cost billions to finish the border wall between U.S and Mexico? Do you know where is Trump is going to get billions from ? Tax payers. Congress has no idea where to get the money to fund the building of the border wall between the U.S and Mexico. The fence will not stop immigrants from coming into the country at all, there are ways that people from Mexico can enter the U.S legally. The border wall is too expensive and impractical for us to continue building to complete it, it’s going to take 4 years for the border wall to completely finish covering the remaining 1,250 miles. A border wall won’t solve any terrorist problem that we as a country have. We shouldn’t continuing the building of the U.S- Mexico border because it just a waste of time and money because it will take 4 years for the border wall to be completely finish the border and maybe after the wall is finish, May not Trump won’t be president The border wall won’t help the crime rate go down in the U.S.
People such as Donald Trump don’t realize the immense affect deporting people will have on the economy. According to an article called, “Trump’s new deportation rules could cost the economy trillions” by Bryce Covert, there is estimated to be 12 million immigrants in the US. Seven out of twelve million are workers who contribute 3 percent of the GDP. In other words 3 percent of the GDP is equal to $5 trillion in economic growth over a ten year period. Deporting all immigrants will cost an estimated price of $4.7 trillion. According to a research from Ryan Edwards and Francesc Ortega at the Center for American Progress, without undocumented workers, the GDP (gross domestic product) could potentially reduce by 2.6 percent in about a decade. In regards to deportations, the government would have to hire 15,000 more border patrol agents and build new detention centers. Let’s not disregard the fact that Mr. Trump also wants to construct a bigger wall which will cost billions of dollars. Considering that the US
To begin with, we should not get rid of immigrants because it would be expensive. According to Donald Trump, we should have a wall on the U.S and Mexico border. The wall's length is a total of 2,000 miles. The wall would cost us $2.8 million (Drew). We would also have to pay $28 billion each year to seal the rest of the country (Hrenchir). It would take $750 million a year to maintain the wall (Drew).
The 2016 presidential election has created much controversy as both parties were viciously attacking each other throughout the campaign season; one of the initiatives that the Republican Party was the wanting to pursue was the building of a wall that will border the United States and Mexico. Although the source of this money is unaware, Trump’s plan is make the country of Mexico to pay for it as it stretches nearly two thousands miles long and has a great expense (Drew).
Not only will it be extremely hard to retain the 20 billion dollars worth of funding for the wall, but it will also be difficult to construct due to private property rights and uneasy terrain. Acquiring the rights to the private land would cost a fortune, and the wall would not be very effective due to the fact that it would only slow down the flow of undocumented immigrants, rather than stop it altogether. Trump also plans on arresting and deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants, which will cost close to 200 billion dollars, and will lead to military-like operations being conducted throughout the country. In reality, Trump’s policy is deemed insufficient, ineffective, and
When Donald trump announced his candidacy it was somewhat of a joke to some of the establish GOP members, but as time went on it became clearer that he is what the American public wanted. Donald Trump is a man that to the public may seem like he has no idea what the is doing, but that is not the truth at all. Walter Meade said that, “In both domestic and foreign policy, this century will be profoundly influenced by the values and concerns of Jacksonian America (Mead 2002, 231).” Donald Trump embodies those Jacksonian principles almost down to the mark, with a small percentage of Jeffersonian thrown in. He believes in first and foremost protecting America and its interests while still protecting the liberties at home, and that is what has shaped and will shape his foreign policy if and when he becomes president.