Highlights of the Trump/Republican Party Agenda 4 the Very Wealthy

Greed is the explanation!

#The Resistance
is the antidote!

Since the end of the 19^th century, the Republican agenda has, first and foremost, been to promote the economic interests of the very wealthy.

In the current 115^th Congress, the Republican  agenda is, unmistakably, indifferent to the well-being of the other 99+% of Americans.

The primary (economic) goal of the Trump Administration and Republican Congress is to reduce the share of tax revenue from the very wealthy and “their” large and powerful corporations. By a standard measure of income inequality, America currently ranks 45th out of 144 nations – the change in the tax structure by the Trump administration and Republican Congress will certainly markedly increase economic inequality in America. In 2008, America ranked 28^th among 33 developed nations for children in poverty households. Likewise, America is an outlier for elderly poverty and single parent families headed by females. We can expect increased rates of poverty and reduced benefits available to the poor.

In turn, such a change in the tax structure will be used to justify a reduction in all areas of discretionary (as opposed to mandated by existing law) spending, except military spending This will result in reductions in programs that promote the well-being of the other 99+% of Americans. Starting with Reagan, the Republican Party has used whatever leverage to reduce the effectiveness of regulatory law passed TO PROTECT THE WELL-BEING OF THE 99+%. For example, budgets have since been continually reduced for the FDA (overseeing the healthfulness of food and drugs), OSHA (protecting employees in their workplace) and the EPA (protecting harm to the environment – particularly that promotes harm the 99+% from a “poisoned” environment). 

Regulation TO PROTECT THE WELL-BEING OF THE 99+% will be under never before imagined attack in order TO INCREASE CORPORATE PROFITS. Reducing the active role of regulatory agencies or weakening regulations will expose Americans to greater health risks (and other risks) of all kinds – at work, as consumers, and through air/water/food/medications, etc. 

In particular, gutting the protections of Obamacare and throwing enrollees into a health insurance market that will be more expensive will leave many families (as much as 30 million over time) without coverage or “healthcare poor". Thus, making American health care even less effective than all other affluent nations – in 2015, the U.S. ranked 31st of 195 nations in life expectancy, 38th out of 175 nations in infant mortality, etc. It is almost unimaginable that the richest nation, with the highest material standard of living, stands alone among affluent nations without a system of national, universal coverage healthcare system (not based on affordability). 

GREED IS THE EXPLANATION!#The Resistance is the antidote!