DailyPUMA thinks it is pretty evident that Donald Trump is possibly the biggest liar to ever set foot in the White House. So why does his core group of followers not care? Democrats MUST understand why Donald Trump can lie and still be staunchly supported by his loyal followers, or Donald Trump could still win a second term if he is not impeached and then removed from office. Even if Trump is removed from office, what is to stop him from running again in 2020 as an American Martyr?
Every time Donald Trump talks about bringing jobs back to America, he does something that few Democrats dared to do during the Obama Administration. Trump keeps talking about Jobs for Americans, about Jobs that have been lost overseas. Very few Democrats spoke about losing jobs overseas during the Obama years and this along with a catastrophic mortgage modification program in which honorable but struggling homeowners were clumped together with house flippers was another core issue that offended Middle America during the Obama years.
Core issue number three was the sudden meme that encouraged Hospitals and Medicare Providers to ask the sons and daughters of senior parents who were hospitalized if they wanted to place their elderly parent in home hospice care programs, even when the senior was not terminally ill! DP PERSONALLY experienced the Mortgage Modification fiasco AND the Home Hospice Care protocol first hand and won't ever back down about how the Obama Administration's policies created the sieve that leaked blue collar Democrats to someone as carny as Donald Trump most likely is.
Americans want to feel like they themselves matter and Trump knows this better than the Democrats, so connecting the new Income Tax changes with magical bonuses for American Workers simply thrills the Die Hard Trump Supporters. As for the Income Tax Changes, the latest Trump Trick is that companies may forego actual wage hikes and instead create more corporate profits by saying they are giving out bonuses while delaying wage hikes. Bonuses that replace wage hikes simultaneously erode an employee's future Social Security Retirement Income while also reducing a corporation's Medicare and FICA obligations.
It would not surprise DailyPUMA one bit if Trump is whispering into the ear of corporations that they can give out bonuses instead of wage hikes, thus allowing Trump to once again brag about how great his income tax cut is even though a bonus versus a wage increase is ripping off workers because it will ultimately lower the worker's monthly Social Security Retirement Income.
During the Obama years a one time 250 dollar "bonus" was given one year instead of a Social Security percentage raise. That one year bonus has FOREVER reduced the government's Social Security annual outlay by creating a perpetual percentage lag in social security increases in perpetuity in exchange for a one time 250 dollar "bonus".
The bonus technique in lieu of an actual wage increase is possibly one of the stealthiest financial scams a corporation or a government can hoist upon its employees and citizens.
Even though Social Security Retirement Income tops out at around 2,800 dollars a month, the average worker will get somewhere between 1,200 to 2,000 dollars a month if they retire at 67. A wage increase now can pay back ten fold and on up after retirement in the form of social security income, whereas a bonus now instead of a wage hike stagnates the employee's income every year until they retire!
Replacing wage hikes with bonuses could eventually cost a retiree a certain amount of retirement income per month, times 120 (a ten year retirement equivalent)! So if a retiree receives 100 dollars less a month in Social Security Income because they got a couple of bonuses instead of raises during their work years, that could work out to a 12,000 dollar reduction in Social Security income over the first decade of retirement. Plus, bonuses instead of wage increases probably allow corporations to increase their profits since they do not have to match FICA and Medicare contributions. So the recent reduction on corporate income tax from 35% to 21% could actually turn into an even bigger heist if the corporation can get their employees to accept bonuses instead of wage increases. It would not surprise DailyPUMA if this bonus trick is being celebrated in executive offices all over the country.
The bonus instead of wage increase trick reminds DailyPUMA of the scam Donald Trump tried to pull with Mexico at the beginning of his presidency when recordings of Trump surfaced asking Mexico to lie about paying for the wall so he could look good to his supporters. In this instance, DP can see Trump cajoling companies like Disney or Apple to announce 1,000 dollar bonuses so that his Income Tax plan looks good to Trump's supporters, and also as a thank you from Corporations because of the huge corporate income tax deduction recently signed into law. Meanwhile the bonus now instead of a wage increase can easily turn into quid pro quo reduction from any future wage increase, which as cited above, could actually mean a substantial loss over a 10 year period of social security retirement wages.
It's really this simple, if a worker gets a bonus now, that amount of bonus could possible be MINUSED from any future wage increase.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are so fixated on EVERYBODY matters, and IMMIGRANTS matter, that they have ceded AMERICANS matter, to Trump. The Democrat rally cry of more for everybody and there is room for everybody, when those who were already here in America were losing their wealth, is a meme primarily popular with Progressive Democrats because those directly affected by Trump's Immigration policies become a bountiful source of Democrat Votes. Plus those newest to our country are going to scream the loudest if their stay is in jeopardy, however, those who have been in the U.S. for decades upon decades may stay silent and simply vote for Trump in four years because they don't want to be put behind anyone else and defiantly reject being called a racist because they object to what they perceive are line jumpers.
Even when Trump lies, at least he is talking up the "America First" propaganda that Democrats have abandoned in favor of Immigration. Democrats are gambling big time that blasting "America First" as being a racist slogan will give them the presidency in 2020.
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