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发帖数: 215 | 1 The Democrats favor a higher minimum wage, protection of union rights,
generous, if not free, medical care programs for working class Americans,
safety regulations for the working place, reducing global warning (which
effects the health of everyone), higher taxes on rich people to pay for even
more generous social programs, and maintaining if not increasing social
security payments.
Republicans, on the other hand, want to reduce taxes on the rich, restrict
union rights, repeal Obamacare, privitize social security benefits (which
could undermine the program’s reliability) and eliminate various
regulations on business, including safety requirements and efforts to deal
with global warming.
Of course, the Republicans argue that reducing taxes and regulations would
help workers because the rich would increase their investments in new
businesses and bolster the economy. That investment in turn would increase
wages for everyone.
The facts and economic theory does not bear this out. There are no trickle
down benefits for the poorer, only sucking up benefits for the rich. |
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