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Originally Posted by L0LWAT
RE objections to Biden's policy.
I saw 3 things posted that that aren't culture war nonsense: immigration, foreign aid, taxes. I don't see any glaring issues that make him the "worst" or "evil". I'm starting to think that terminology is people trying to "bothsides" or whatever because DT was such a disastrous president.
Rhetoric is the only thing that changes nationally with regard to immigration. Sometimes presidents appear permissive toward immigration, sometimes they demonize and denigrate, but the policy has always been to allow businesses to employ these people (for less than market rate, undercutting our workforce).
Biden was always going to have to increase taxes or make huge cuts by the design of Trump's policy. We knew this before the 2020 election. I do see his policy leaning more toward the way of reform. They're increasing corporate taxes and those on investment type tax payers. As an advocate for the habitability of our planet, I'm glad the government is giving less money to oil companies. Experts say this will boost revenue, REDUCE GDP, and jobs in the near term.
I don't think this is great, but it's headed in the right direction. Our country grew to be the unipolar super power with corporate taxes at 40%. We put it back into the country and built the awesome public institutions we have today -- that we're dead set on destroying.
I know there are a few nuts who Biden is evil because there are always a few nuts who think every politician is evil, but for the most part repubs haven’t called any dem politicians evil anywhere near the level dems have called repub politicians evil.
the language in which a political party talks about illegal immigration and the policies they use to treat illegal immigrants can have massive effects on the number of illegal immigrants.
You are right that tax increases do slow economic growth and increase unemployment higher than what we would otherwise see. The only reason I believe you think Biden has to raise taxes is because the govt is still spending at the increased levels we saw because of Covid.
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Originally Posted by Slighted
FTC banning non-competes and invalidating most current ones. huge win for workers
eta- inb4 bahbah comes in with how this is actually bad for workers because of something Reagan said.
I have long been against 98+% of non-competes. However, there are some that I think should be legal and enforceable but there are only for business owners or people at similar levels in a company. Non-competes are utterly ridiculous for lower level or even middle management employees.