"THIRD, cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities." Is this explained anywhere?
Had to google that one myself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_city
Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
231–240 of 1001 posts
Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
#232A lot of what's in there seems pretty reasonable, but: 1) The whole border wall thing is just ridiculous. I thought he had given up on that. Why would Mexico have to pay for that? If the US wants to build a wall, fine, build it and pay for it. It doesn't make sense to demand that Mexico pay for it. It's like building a wall on your property and demanding your neighbors pay for it. 2) The FDA thing is scary. Regulatio…
> It doesn't make sense to demand that Mexico pay for it. It's like building a wall on your property and demanding your neighbors pay for it. When buying a house, wouldnt you try to negotiate for seller concessions like paying for repairs? Trumps wall comments were always in conjunction with discussing the massive trade deficit with Mexico. If we are in a stronger position to negotiate with Mexico, why wouldnt we neg…
> When buying a house, wouldnt you try to negotiate for seller concessions like paying for repairs?
Yes; but you typically do that before you buy the property, we've had texas for a while now.
All the talk about trade deficit with Mexico makes it sound like people think we just cut Mexico a check every year. As a nation, we receive goods and services for that deficit. It isn't money on the table.
Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get the appeal of term limits on Congress. Why would you vote for an amateur politician instead of a professional career politician? Aren't career politicians better than amateur politicians? If a politician is doing a good job, why would you artificially limit their term? The branch of government with the highest approval rate is the Judicial branch, where Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life.
The appeal is that it would make being a career politician impossible and that term-limited congress would therefore act out of interest for their constituents rather than themselves. But you're right that it would also prevent good politicians from staying. Another proposal which could have a similar effect would be to drastically increase the number of representatives so that each one represents a smaller number of…
Term limits mean just as people really figure out how it works and how to get things done, they're gone.
Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's exactly the point. No one has ever offered such a document, so say what you want about Trump, he's taking a step towards transparency and accountability.
Have you never heard of the Contract With America? This isn't really breaking new ground. Probably, you're just more engaged in this election and this is better covered.
The contract with America is notable for being highly, highly unusual to broadcast your actual plans. Nobody did this before or after the contract with america until now.
Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
#235Why is it when I post garbage comments, they get downvoted. But when people post garbage comments that slam one or more of:
1) Republican
2) Christian
3) Conservative
4) Anyone from Texas except Austin
5) Anyone who works in the energy industry outside solar
Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
#236"limit, freeze, eliminate, ban, withdraw, label, end, remove, suspend and cancel" Just some of the words that stuck out to me.
But what about the phrase "eliminate the ban on X." Then you're not banning something.
It's almost like you can't just look at the verbs alone and distill very useful meaning.
Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
#237Leave nafta? There doesn't seem to be a very thorough analysis on the effect of this.... You can't just make changes to economic policy and hope for the best - there are far and wide impacts to making changes like this.
There are several drastic terms like that, e.g. "Cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back.". When entering negotiations with such a threat you will get what you want, he will be able to easily dictate changes to NAFTA and every country will take their people back. I am not even sure this is such a bad strategy.
But that’s not how the world sees it. Many countries will see his request literally, and just completely refuse anything.
An example of such a miscommunication in Europe right now: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37799805
Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
#238Whatever you think about Trump or the policies in that document, it's clearer and more concise than anything I've seen from an elected official.
And what are the repercussions if he does NOT achieve all these within the first 100 days? Will he step down? Come up with yet another plan? Contracts usually stipulate this as well. [Edit: And the downvote brigade strikes - for merely asking a genuine question. I guess this is an indication of the sort of thing that we can expect 'top down' from now on... Stay silent, never question, just obey the mandates... sigh]…
In France Hollande have been moving goal posts every time these 'N days' plans failed. He's now thinking about a second mandate.
Out of curiosity, in this era of disruption (for better or worse) where are the plans to disrupt politicians ? So many flaws yet we keep believing in the same democratic design every election.
Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
#239There's a lot of really scary stuff in there: - Cancel payments to U.N. climate change projects - Remove two existing regulations for every new regulation - Drastic tax cuts - Massive immigration changes
- Cancel UN climate payments, use money instead on America water and environmental issues. Sounds good to me. Let China and India clean up their own mess, while we clean up our messes. - Yes. Too many regulations by unelected bureaucrats. Sounds good to me. I'd rather have one clear and meaningful regulation than two "up for random interpretation." - Yes. Tax cuts for all working people. Let people decide what to do…
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-picks-top-c... Is this what you consider cleaning up our mess?
Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know exactly, but there are probably oil reserves in places like Alaska that would be cheaper to extract if it were allowed.
That's my guess too, but large numbers of new drilling sites - especially remote ones - would drive up costs while simultaneously helping to keep per-barrel prices low. Just sounds like a terrible ROI to me.
Well, I don't really expect this to cause oil extraction costs to go up. I don't think companies would waste money choosing more expensive drilling sites. But this could also signal an attack on local regulations too. It would make a big difference if local fracking bans were made illegal. Texas did that.