DECODE THE DECLARATION ON THE 4TH OF JULY..THEN DECIDE YOUR VIEW

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When Thomas Jefferson was writing the Declaration of Independence in the weeks leading up July 4, 1776, he wanted to not only rely on just high-falutin enlightenment ideals to justify the case for separation from Great Britain. His aim was also to present a slam-dunk indictment of King George III—to prove that the royal was a “tyrant” and that he and Parliament had forfeited their right to rule the Americans by breaking their own laws and trampling on the rights of their people. This is why about half of the Declaration is a list of 27 specific grievances lodged against the King and his regime.

Two hundred and forty-nine years later, many of these grievances apply to the reign of Donald Trump. Here’s a look at how Trump stacks up against the Mad King.

Surprised the Democrats haven't banned the Declaration of Independence. It was written by a slave holder who slept with his dead wife's mulatto sister.

President Trump has twice been elected by the American people. American voters never elected King George the 3rd. And had no representation in the English Parliament.

HA ignores this distinction.

Last November we rejected Donald J Trump to rid our land of foreign invaders. Home Again would say the Japanese soldiers who invaded the Aleutian Islands deserved due process before we shot them for invading.

FredHayek wrote:

Surprised the Democrats haven't banned the Declaration of Independence. It was written by a slave holder who slept with his dead wife's mulatto sister.

President Trump has twice been elected by the American people. American voters never elected King George the 3rd. And had no representation in the English Parliament.

HA ignores this distinction.

Last November we rejected Donald J Trump to rid our land of foreign invaders. Home Again would say the Japanese soldiers who invaded the Aleutian Islands deserved due process before we shot them for invading.

THE PEOPLE ELECTED A PRESIDENT....NOT A OLIGARCH/CZAR.... WAIT AND WATCH

So many on the Left are still embarrassed about America's violent past.

July 4th is the true "No Kings Day".

Today an American president will sign a new budget crafted by 400 House representatives, modified and voted on by 100 senators, sent back to the House for approvals and passed again.

The president from the executive branch will then sign it into law.

And the Left claims we are a dictatorship. Malarkey!

This bill was almost rejected by a bipartisan minority. Clearly representative democracy is still the law of the land.

homeagain wrote:

FredHayek wrote:

THE PEOPLE ELECTED A PRESIDENT....NOT A OLIGARCH/CZAR.... WAIT AND WATCH

Come on HA, what are we waiting and watching for this time? You say you don't want a king or a czar or an oligach, yet that's the kind of government you vote for. You vote for people who tell us how we should live our lives... what we should eat, what we should drive, how our children should be taught, what energy we are allowed to use, what people from around the planet we should invite in...

The people you vote for act like kings and queens as a collective group... Trump is bringing back the freedom this country was meant to have.

So again, what horrible things should we be waiting for?

What’s the final cost?

Altogether, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the bill will increase federal deficits over the next 10 years by nearly $3.3 trillion from 2025 to 2034.

Or not, depending on how one does the math.

Senate Republicans proposed a unique strategy of not counting the existing tax breaks as a new cost because those breaks are already “current policy.” Republican senators say the Senate Budget Committee chair has the authority to set the baseline for the preferred approach.

Under the alternative Senate GOP view, the bill will reduce deficits by almost half a trillion dollars over the coming decade, the CBO said.

Democrats say this is “magic math” that obscures the true costs of the tax breaks. Some nonpartisan groups worried about the country’s fiscal trajectory are siding with Democrats in that regard. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says Senate Republicans were employing an “accounting gimmick that would make Enron executives blush.” PERL.A.TIMES

I WILL NOT BE ON THE PLANET WHEN "MAGIC MATH" KICKS IN....BUT YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN WILL.....THE NATION ,AS WE HAVE KNOWN IT,WILL NOT EXIST......BUT, THAT IS NOT WHAT "WAIT AND WATCH IS REFERRING TO.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/economists-defic...s/story?id=123481401

But many economists disagree.

Trump's bill is one of the most expensive pieces of legislation in generations, while also lowering the amount of tax revenue the country collets for decades to come.

Even without this bill, the federal debt is at record levels -- roughly equal to the size of the entire U.S. economy. It's estimated about one in every four dollars paid in personal income taxes goes toward interest on the national debt.

Americans should care, economists told ABC News, because bigger federal deficits mean higher interest rates. That means more expensive mortgages, car loans, and it crowds out business investments that would make workers more productive, according to Douglas Elmendorf, professor at Harvard Kennedy School and former economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Plus, more debt means less room to respond to crises, they say.

"It's like a family that taps out its credit cards and then has a problem with the roof of their house. You want to have a little room to maneuver in case bad things happen, and we are running out of that room," Elmendorf said.

WAIT AND WATCH...THE MICRO VIEW IS MASSIVE AND A MISTAKE.

Really depends on the economy. Record spending during Covid era, interest rates were at zero or one percent.