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cbdo2007

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3. It all starts with the $1,000 he's promising people by lowering their taxes....

Reply to TomCADem (Original post)

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 09:45 AM

Dec 2016

which we can't afford.

Which is the exact same way George W. Bush won in 2000 (well, that and the whole vote fiasco, but the main reason he was even competitive) is because we had a surplus so he told all the voters if they voted him and he won he would send everyone $800 as economic stimulus....which of course put us right back into a massive deficit.

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