Here's hoping Trump breaks his promises - John Stossel, The Spectrum:
January 4, 2017 - "Two more weeks until the new administration begins!
"I wonder if President Donald Trump will stick to his campaign promises — like reducing immigration and slamming consumers by imposing a 35 percent tariff. Hope not.
"But it could have been much worse.
"Bernie Sanders wanted to make college free, even though professors say classes are filled with privileged students who party and just kill time.... Both Sanders and Hillary Clinton promised a higher minimum wage and a thousand other new commandments that would do more harm than good.
"Every Republican candidate vowed to increase defense spending, even though the U.S. is going broke and already spends more than the next seven biggest nations combined, while half the democratic world freeloads off America's armed forces....
"I'm not infatuated with Trump. His magical thinking scares me. What gives me optimism are many of Trump's appointments. He's surrounded himself with people who 'get it,' who understand the harm done by overregulation and the benefits created by economic growth.
"Larry Kudlow as economic advisor?! Paul Atkins, Andy Puzder and Betsy DeVos in important positions?!.... I bet Mitt Romney wouldn't have appointed them....
"It would be easier to judge progress had the Libertarian Party candidate won. We could measure whether the party kept its promise to shrink government, cut spending, lower taxes, decrease overseas military commitments, deregulate and butt out of people's private lives.
"Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, sounding like the Founders of our nation, often answered reporters' grandiose questions by saying, 'I'm not running for king.' Unlike Donald Trump, a narcissistic bully who often tells us he's 'in charge,' Johnson understood that decision-making power is best left in the hands of individual citizens.
"Libertarians also respect Friedrich Hayek's insight: 'The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they know about what they imagine they can design'....
"I fear that 2017 will bring us more of the same: Politicians doing what they think will make the loudest voters happy.
"They want us to think we can have it both ways — that we can reduce deficits while boosting spending on infrastructure and defense and not touching entitlements, etc. That's what Donald Trump has promised.
"I hope he breaks many of his promises soon."
Read more: http://www.thespectrum.com/story/opinion/2017/01/04/heres-hoping-trump-breaks-his-promises/96119020/
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January 4, 2017 - "Two more weeks until the new administration begins!
"I wonder if President Donald Trump will stick to his campaign promises — like reducing immigration and slamming consumers by imposing a 35 percent tariff. Hope not.
"But it could have been much worse.
"Bernie Sanders wanted to make college free, even though professors say classes are filled with privileged students who party and just kill time.... Both Sanders and Hillary Clinton promised a higher minimum wage and a thousand other new commandments that would do more harm than good.
"Every Republican candidate vowed to increase defense spending, even though the U.S. is going broke and already spends more than the next seven biggest nations combined, while half the democratic world freeloads off America's armed forces....
"I'm not infatuated with Trump. His magical thinking scares me. What gives me optimism are many of Trump's appointments. He's surrounded himself with people who 'get it,' who understand the harm done by overregulation and the benefits created by economic growth.
"Larry Kudlow as economic advisor?! Paul Atkins, Andy Puzder and Betsy DeVos in important positions?!.... I bet Mitt Romney wouldn't have appointed them....
"It would be easier to judge progress had the Libertarian Party candidate won. We could measure whether the party kept its promise to shrink government, cut spending, lower taxes, decrease overseas military commitments, deregulate and butt out of people's private lives.
"Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, sounding like the Founders of our nation, often answered reporters' grandiose questions by saying, 'I'm not running for king.' Unlike Donald Trump, a narcissistic bully who often tells us he's 'in charge,' Johnson understood that decision-making power is best left in the hands of individual citizens.
"Libertarians also respect Friedrich Hayek's insight: 'The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they know about what they imagine they can design'....
"I fear that 2017 will bring us more of the same: Politicians doing what they think will make the loudest voters happy.
"They want us to think we can have it both ways — that we can reduce deficits while boosting spending on infrastructure and defense and not touching entitlements, etc. That's what Donald Trump has promised.
"I hope he breaks many of his promises soon."
Read more: http://www.thespectrum.com/story/opinion/2017/01/04/heres-hoping-trump-breaks-his-promises/96119020/
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