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    Yeah, I am sure the mega corporations like McDonalds will be fine. It's the small businesses that will go under. Like the one AoC worked at.


    If you really want to see what Democrats version of America looks like economically look at France. Absolute **** show over there. They have everything American liberal dream of and they are still protesting. They should be protesting against themselves for voting for that crap in the first place but voters never blame themselves for voting for bad policies.
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    $1,560,000,000,000.

    1.56 trillion dollars. That's the total student

    loan debt in the United States.

    We have a crisis on our hand — and predatory loan

    companies are profiting off of it. We need bold ideas:

    we need free college for all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
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    $1,560,000,000,000.

    1.56 trillion dollars. That's the total student

    loan debt in the United States.

    We have a crisis on our hand — and predatory loan

    companies are profiting off of it. We need bold ideas:

    we need free college for all.
    Why would you imagine we have this much debt?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
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    $1,560,000,000,000.

    1.56 trillion dollars. That's the total student

    loan debt in the United States.

    We have a crisis on our hand — and predatory loan

    companies are profiting off of it. We need bold ideas:

    we need free college for all.
    Would do you think would happen if college was free?

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    Will Trump Trade the Future for a Hill of Beans?

    The outlines of a potential trade deal with China suggest President Trump once again is prioritizing superficial gains over America’s long-term economic interests.

    It’s easy to sell soybeans to China. The Chinese are voracious consumers of the world’s raw materials. Until 2018, shiploads of soybeans from the American Midwest streamed to the processing plants that dot the Chinese coast. So there is no reason to applaud the news that the Chinese government has offered to guarantee large purchases of American soybeans as part of a potential trade deal with the United States that the Trump administration is pushing to complete by late March or early April.

    Instead, it is a worrying sign that the administration may settle for an ephemeral victory at the expense of America’s long-term economic interests.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
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    $1,560,000,000,000.

    1.56 trillion dollars. That's the total student

    loan debt in the United States.

    We have a crisis on our hand — and predatory loan

    companies are profiting off of it. We need bold ideas:

    we need free college for all.
    People just need to be smarter and realize that college for the most part is a scam.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thewupk View Post
    People just need to be smarter and realize that college for the most part is a scam.
    the education system has been captured by its stakeholders and largely functions in their interests, which not infrequently diverge from the interests of the students
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    I would like someone to walk me through how that would work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    the education system has been captured by its stakeholders and largely functions in their interests, which not infrequently diverge from the interests of the students
    The textbook industry has essentially destroyed the second hand market. They require you to buy a code to even participate in the class. And some teachers who have tried to go around this by printing their own textbooks have gotten in trouble by the uni's.
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    The key takeaway today: The Fed is getting more worried about the economy.

    -It sees 2.1% GDP in 2019 and 1.9% in 2020
    -It is now planning ZERO rate hikes in 2019
    -It did exactly what market wanted on balance sheet (i.e. stopping in September and slowing in May)
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    Fed has been making this mistake for 10 years.

    Doesn't let the market set the rates... Creating a bubble for a disaster down the road

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    BLOOMBERG NEWS: “The U.S. posted its biggest monthly budget deficit on record last month, amid a 20% drop in corporate tax revenue and a boost in spending so far this fiscal year.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
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    BLOOMBERG NEWS: “The U.S. posted its biggest monthly budget deficit on record last month, amid a 20% drop in corporate tax revenue and a boost in spending so far this fiscal year.”
    Tax receipts down 1%

    Spending up 38%

    Tell me which is the problem

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    The Treasury data show tax receipts declined for both corporations and individuals in the five-month period, while revenue from customs duties almost doubled, boosted by income from tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.

    The 2017 tax law slashed the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent.

    Corporations have so far this fiscal year paid $59.2 billion, compared to $73.5 billion at the point in 2018, when the tax law was only partially in effect for some corporations. In 2017, however, the year before the law was enacted, corporations had paid $87.4 billion at this point in the year.



    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...rd-in-february
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    and your suggestions for "getting spending under control
    I dont see where spending went up 38%.
    That seems a huge spike for a 5 month period
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    I dont know nor will I pretend to know which is the problem.
    All I know is people were assured this wouldn't happen
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    now extreme poverty is not having wifi.
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    Jobless claims ar 49 year low.

    Lets move to socialism yall!

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    Jobless claims ar 49 year low.

    Lets move to socialism yall!
    Jobless claims/unemployment are not good economic indicators on their own.
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