Do Catholics still support Trump

[petra22]

I don’t know… If you read the Tax Reform package, it is clearly geared toward to the top bracket over time… it disproportionately helps those who need it least.

How can you say this when they double lowest rate and double child care??? And lower rates on EVERYONE??? What are you missing?

 

[TheLittleLady]

If my paycheck is bigger, it is because my work earned me a meritorious raise or bonus.

 

[Ridgerunner]

If my paycheck is bigger, it is because my work earned me a meritorious raise or bonus

Undoubtedly. But it will probably be bigger due to the tax cut as well. Patience.

 

[PaulinVA]

Shouldn’t just assume everything is dark just because your ideology demands it of you. Life might turn out better than your politics assume

No, it’s not politics, in the sense that anything the orange one does is bad. It always bad fiscal policy to deficit spend for a tax cut, unless you are in a bad recession.

I thought Republicans were fiscal conservatives.

Remember, Trump SOP is to make bad deals, declare bankruptcy, stiff the little guy, and declare success. He’s doing it with the country now.

 

[PaulinVA]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...1ac729add94_story.html?utm_term=.f0e0460fd345

Seriously, how do you people support this guy?

 

[Ridgerunner]

I thought Republicans were fiscal conservatives.

Remember, Trump SOP is to make bad deals, declare bankruptcy, stiff the little guy, and declare success. He’s doing it with the country now.

I’m not a Republican, so…

The second assertion is absolutely unwarranted in every respect. He did get into NJ casinos right before they crashed. He filed Ch 11 to keep the big creditors from looting him. In Ch 11, remember, everybody gets paid before the owner gets to keep any equity under the “absolute priority rule”, a judge adjudicates the validity of every single claim, and Trump later sold his casino interests at a profit.

Not one of your ideologically-driven assumptions is true.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Seriously, how do you people support this guy?

I wouldn’t trust WaPo to tell me whether the sun comes up in the east or west in the morning. Besides, they have a paywall, so most of us can’t read the cited article without helping to support that odious publication, which I refuse to do.

Now, one can argue with the language if, indeed, Trump really called Haiti and El Salvador “s**tholes”. But if one looks past that, one wonders why he didn’t add Guatemala, Iran, much of the Middle East and North Africa, certainly Somalia and some of sub-Saharan Africa. Well, we shouldn’t leave out much of the Balkans and Myanmar.

People leave countries in droves, on leaky boats, across hostile territories like Mexico, in trucks that leak carbon monoxide, and in cargo containers to get to the First World precisely because their countries are (if one wishes to use the scatological term) “s**tholes”. And they probably say it themselves, in their own languages, of course.

 

[pnewton]

A tax cut in an up economy is stupid. S-t-o-o-p-i-d.

I don’t know about that. I think it will work out very well for the wealthy, like the President and his ilk. In the past, before it was made illegal, Congress used to vote themselves raises all the time. The President can’t do that, but he can pad his bank account in other ways. That is part of the spoils system.

 

[seekerz]

That kind of answer makes perfect sense - even to a Catholic, until you consider the context: don’t let people immigrate from those places is what he was saying.

So fellow Catholics, what do you think now?

Would you rather be on the side of Man whose hometown’s rep was “can anything good come out of there”? Or the other side?

 

[PaulinVA]

I wouldn’t trust WaPo to tell me whether the sun comes up in the east or west in the morning. Besides, they have a paywall, so most of us can’t read the cited article without helping to support that odious publication, which I refuse to do.

Sorry about the paywall. Just wander over to any online news source including Fox to read all about it.

Now, one can argue with the language if, indeed, Trump really called Haiti and El Salvador “s**tholes”. But if one looks past that, one wonders why he didn’t add Guatemala, Iran, much of the Middle East and North Africa, certainly Somalia and some of sub-Saharan Africa. Well, we shouldn’t leave out much of the Balkans and Myanmar.

Are you really doubling down on his comment?

People leave countries in droves, on leaky boats, across hostile territories like Mexico, in trucks that leak carbon monoxide, and in cargo containers to get to the First World precisely because their countries are (if one wishes to use the scatological term) “s**tholes”. And they probably say it themselves, in their own languages, of course.

The President of the United States should not use that language. Period. Let’s hope he doesn’t ever need anything from those countries.

 

[PaulinVA]

The second assertion is absolutely unwarranted in every respect. He did get into NJ casinos right before they crashed. He filed Ch 11 to keep the big creditors from looting him. In Ch 11, remember, everybody gets paid before the owner gets to keep any equity under the “absolute priority rule”, a judge adjudicates the validity of every single claim, and Trump later sold his casino interests at a profit.

Not one of your ideologically-driven assumptions is true.

He bankrupted a casino! A place where the house always wins.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Weak from heart surgery and a sepsis infection that would soon kill her, Patricia Paone was resting at home last summer when an apparition appeared on the TV — a famous businessman who had struck a deal with her husband years before.

“He’s a crook!” she roared, according to a son who was with her that day. “I can’t listen to this.”

A quarter of a century had passed since Donald Trump refused to pay $1.2 million for the paving stones her late husband installed at Atlantic City’s Taj Mahal casino. But for Paone and others like her — the dozens of contractors and their families who never got all they were owed — it could have happened yesterday.

The contractor who provided the onion domes atop the Taj had to eat $2 million in losses. The contractor who supplied the Carrara marble from Italy ended up filing for personal bankruptcy. The contractor who put in the bathroom partitions had to lay off his brother.

“Anytime I went to Atlantic City and I’d see that Trump sign, I’d think of the little guys,” says bankruptcy lawyer Arthur Abramowitz who worked with contractors for years after the casino itself went bankrupt. “It wasn’t just the money; a lot of these guys went into depression.”

 

[upant]

what do you think now?

still never hillary