11-17-2016, 06:40 PM
(11-17-2016, 06:35 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: The ACA is bad policy. It has good effects but it is overall bad policy. It gets more people insured but it doesn't address the actual issues. The Dems aren't entirely to blame for this, after all it is repackaged GOP policy from the Reagan era, but it is still bad policy. I had to say it three times for emphasis.
The free education idea is a crock. We don't need more people with college degrees, with need more people with job skills. The whole "everyone needs a degree" idea from the Bill Clinton era helped make this shift worse. It wasn't the only cause, but it is a contributing factor to the decline of the middle class. There are some genuine idiots in college that don't need to be there, and it's because of this. They are racking up debt to get a worthless degree or they would be racking up government debt to get one.
Tax cuts, another band aid solution that looks nice on the campaign trail but isn't based in reality. I'll admit to this one being something that could actually help the middle class, for a few months at least. But what are these middle class tax cuts coupled with? Reduced spending? In which areas? Tax increases? On whom?
As for the last point:
Do try to read a post when you respond to it.
But your position that "both parties are bad for the working class" does not explain why the working class would shift from the Democrats to the Republicans. If it is just a case of the balance shifting back and forth then that means there is no real problem with the Democrat party, but from what I understood you to say there actually was a policy reason for the shift.
