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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: An exhausting pattern
Date: 08/23/26 10:32 AM
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I'm so damn tired of the US cycle where Republicans kill our economy, move wealth to the richest 1%, and start a war

Those effects are not independent. They need to wreck the economy, to gain public acceptance of their remedy for the economy, which is always "JC" tax cuts. We have seen that play out in recent days: national debt and bond yields soar. So the Sec Treasury prescribes "growth" as the cure. And the GOP's universal tool to juice "growth" is always, in every case, "JC" tax cuts. Given that 'JC" tax cuts are the objective, they wreck the economy on purpose. Watch for another round of "JC" tax cuts as soon as we are past the election. The war is a device meant to make the mob rally around the leader, in spite of being screwed over by that same leader, by invoking some supposed "threat" that requires a military response. Trump's failing is, being the "JC" of a closely held corporation, he has no background in winning assent to his actions, rather than simply giving orders.

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