03-12-2017, 01:47 AM
(03-11-2017, 03:29 AM)hollodero Wrote: Just to get this straight... Flynn cashed in half a million dollars for lobbying for Turkish de facto-dictator Erdogan when transition took place... and no one noticed or had a problem with making him security advisor anyway?
What is happening?
It's pretty shocking (and we thought not telling them about discussing Russian sanctions was bad!). Granted, it's frickin' Turkey...but how do you miss this?
The only thing I would say is the Trump team, being politically inexperienced, didn't know what to look for or simply how to vet people. But being the super duper great businessman he is, you'd think he'd also hire someone in the know to say "I know you don't care about X, Y and Z.....but you really need to look at X, Y and Z and also these other things". Of course, most good CEO's also want to be challenged and want a healthy mix of opinions. But Trump is obviously not a good CEO.
This will be an interesting test, which mainly is can an idiot unlock economic value simply by following basic free market principles? Won't be a pure test after 8 years of overreach and pseudo central-planning.
Interestingly enough, Obama basically plagiarized Romney on corporate tax reform after pillorying him for that in the election...except nothing ever got done, mainly because it's not truly supported by most Democrats and Obama barely ever gave lip service to actual bipartisanship. So this is a freebie for Repubs and Trump if they are committed to actually doing something, though to be fair it's much much more complicated than simply tweaking a few rates. On the other hand, it COULD easily be revenue neutral and it's such an obvious and necessary thing politicians should be berated for NOT doing it....but, partisan agendas....
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