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struggle4progress

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Fri Jan 19, 2018, 01:36 AM Jan 2018

Majority See First Year As A Failure

January 18, 20185:00 AM ET
JESSICA TAYLOR

... NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll data released Thursday finds that Americans deemed Trump's first year a failure, 53 percent to 40 percent. And by an almost 2-to-1 ratio (61 percent to 32 percent), Americans said they believe Trump has divided the country since his election.

Americans give Trump relatively positive marks on his handling of ISIS and the state of the economy — no small things. But they disapprove of his handling of just about every other issue or think things have gotten worse — from their views of the tax plan to the state of race relations and women's rights to immigration, health care, the deficit and foreign policy, including his approach to North Korea. Seven in 10 Americans are now concerned about the possibility of war breaking out with the rogue nuclear nation ...

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/18/578639915/majority-of-americans-see-trumps-first-year-as-a-failure

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Majority See First Year As A Failure (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2018 OP
It's a failure and all this tax shit is a time bomb. The_Casual_Observer Jan 2018 #1
 

The_Casual_Observer

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1. It's a failure and all this tax shit is a time bomb.
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 01:52 AM
Jan 2018

Within months of the new withholding tables there will be alarm bells from the GAO, this will trigger a recession from the big banks afraid that some corrective measures might be taken, the recession will set the tax nicely in stone for them.

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