bighairymike:

Secure border.

Umm,fentanyl is still making its way into the United States. But, yeah, nobody wants to become an American anymore and no one is interested even in seeking asylum. As you celebrate keeping those black- and brown-skinned folks out of America, bear in mind that immigrant workers will add an extra $7 trillion to the U.S. economy within the next decade and an extra $1 trillion in federal tax revenue. Or, would have.

Doubled Child Tax Credit.

The child tax credit went up $100; it was doubled back in 2017. Of course, the largest increases went to higher income families (previously the benefit had phased out at household incomes over $110,000). It's interesting, though, that republicans celebrate something like the CTC as a win for American families but condemn college loan forgiveness as socialism.

No tax on Tips and Overtime

Many tipped workers don't earn enough income to owe any federal taxes and will earn no deduction. For those who do earn enough to take the deduction, if they buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, starting in 2026, they will no longer receive $7,513 in enhanced premium tax credits toward reducing their premium. This will eclipse their gains under “no tax on tips.”

Iran's nuclear program turned into rubble.

Not according to several sources. At best, their program has been set back a few years; at worst a few months. But the Obama administration had slowed their efforts considerably without dropping bunker busters and destabilizing an already destabilized region.

Eliminated USAID

Why anyone would love the idea of killing children with HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis or starving children by eliminating this highly successful and relatively inexpensive program is beyond me.

Success with numerous prisoner exchanges

Every president has accomplished successful prisoner exchanges. But you might want to go ask the Warmbier family about those successes.

All branches of Military exceeding recruitment goals

You mean recruitment goals were missed during and post-COVID? What a shocker. And it didn't hurt that the U.S. military spent more than $6 billion over the past three years to recruit and retain service members. And BTW, all but the Navy exceeded their recruitment goals during the Biden years.

Supportive of Parental Rights and School Choice

Yeah, their hands were so tied during the Biden years.

Getting men out of women's sports and private spaces

Yeah, those seven trans athletes who were never especially competitive and had already been excluded from high school and college women's team competition during the Biden years are, well, umm, still unable to compete.

Aggressively fighting antisemitism on college campuses

I'm not sure "blackmailing" is the kind of aggressive action needed but whatever.

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