Marco Rubio is knocking legs out from under Kristi Noem’s campaign horse. While South Dakota’s lone Congresswoman pretends that she can come back to Pierre and wisely shrink government, Florida’s junior senator is acknowledging the need for government to protect workers from the churning of the modern economy:
The details of Mr Rubio’s new programme are unclear, but he suggests they will involve more interventions such as the increased child tax credit he inserted into the tax reform passed last year, and a provision for paid family leave he is working on now. He mulls the need for more public spending on technological research and for education reform, to prioritise vocational skills. He advocates a more flexible benefit system, to help the retraining of disrupted workers. Against the magnitude of America’s income inequality, such measures might seem modest. Yet from the lips of an orthodox Republican leader, they imply a serious reconsideration of the pre-eminent conservative ideals: a minimal government role in the economy and a related view of liberty as “freedom from” government interference. “Government has an essential role to play in buffering this transition,” he says. “If we basically say everyone is on their own and the market’s going to take care of it, we will rip the country apart, because millions of good hardworking people lack the means to adapt.” Economic liberty, in this retelling, becomes something the government is required to guarantee. It is the freedom to enjoy “the dignity of work”, says Mr Rubio. “There needs to be a conservative movement that addresses these realities” [“Marco Rubio Offers His Trump-Crazed Party a Glint of Hope,” The Economist, 2018.04.26].
And while Noem touts Trump’s tax cuts, Rubio supports the assessment of a majority of voters, that raiding the public treasury to do rich people favors isn’t helping working Americans:
Mr Rubio’s proposal, to double the tax credit to $2,000 per child and pay for it by making a small increase to the corporate rate his party wanted, was decried by some Republicans as socialism. The watered-down version they accepted, as the price of Mr Rubio’s support for the bill, excluded the poorest families. “There is still a lot of thinking on the right that if big corporations are happy, they’re going to take the money they’re saving and reinvest it in American workers,” he says. “In fact they bought back shares, a few gave out bonuses; there’s no evidence whatsoever that the money’s been massively poured back into the American worker” [The Economist, 2018.04.26].
Somehow I suspect Kristi and her South Dakota comrades won’t be inviting Senator Rubio to keynote the Republican convention in Pierre next month.
Corporations and the 1% that received this huge welfare payment have been on a sugar high,
It is inevitable that the costs of this government are going to cause some long term economic disasters. The government simply can’t sustain republican welfare.
Rubio has noticed that voters in both parties want the American worker to get a fair share. If the democrats do not do as Sanders wanted and get rid of NAFTA, Rubio could walk away with the whole show.
Again we have a GOP member give a truthful, decent accounting of a situation only to raise the question where was this decency and truth when voting FOR these hard-line Trump policies? Where was this decency and truth when supporting candidates running for office? These moments of clarity are easily set aside when ordered to toe the line for partisanship.
“The answer I gave was actually trying to make the same point the president [Obama] made a few years ago [April 13, 2008], and that is there is no scientific debate on the age of the earth. I mean, it’s established pretty definitively it’s four and a half … at least four and a half billion years old.”
—Marco Rubio (December 5, 2012)
If Rubio believes it’s definitively established that the earth is “at least” four and a half billion years old, then he has every right to say so, but his claim that there’s no scientific debate is simply a lie:
https://biblicalscienceinstitute.com/origins/creation-101-radiometric-dating-and-the-age-of-the-earth/
Roger Cornelius writes:
But for many among the political elite in both major parties, it’s apparently anathema to even discuss the effects of unlimited international trade on American wages.
As a traditional pro-liberty Christian, I’ve thought for some time that there are many, many internal contradictions among Marco Rubio’s professed beliefs. Sincere thanks to Cory for pointing out a few more.
Rubio is also correct in the same article
“The Republican tax cut bill has found an unlikely critic in its giveaways to big corporations: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). The 2016 Republican presidential candidate — who voted for the legislation in December — is openly doubting it’s actually benefiting American workers and says it is instead resulting in a boost in stock buybacks that benefit shareholders. In fact, he says, there’s “no evidence whatsoever” that American workers are seeing a big tax cut boost.”
So, I agree with Rubio on this as well as the other thingy. Also, who are we to say we were here first as a species. We may be just recycled mystery machines.
Kurt Evans,
You wrongly attributed Roger Elgersma to me.
Kurt:
Circular reasoning is not scientific debate (from your linked source).
1. If the Bible were not true, logic would not be meaningful.
2. Logic is meaningful.
3. Therefore, the Bible is true.
—Jason Lisle
“The good thing about science is that is true whether or not you believe in it.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Rubio’s observations on Trump tax cuts are similar to what economist have said from the onset of passage and implication of the bill.
Trump called his bill a Tax Cut and Jobs Act yet there is little or no indication that employment has had any drastic bump.
Aside from some piecemeal bonuses by some corporations there hasn’t been a significant raise in pay as promised.
In fact, the recent bankruptcies and big box store closings (i.e. Sears, Toys R Us, Herberger’s, etc.) are an indication that retail sales are on the down turn and will continue that way unless the corporations and 1% invest in American workers.
To say nothing of Trump’s ill-fated tariffs, which he delayed again today.
Has anyone seen the NOem infrastructure plan that her and trump were gonna roll out? NOem blathered on about a 9% growth thing but maybe she met a goiter thing perhaps on trumps melon that hair piece tries to cover.
Roger, did you notice who got the most favorable tariff relief? It was South Korea after Moon declared that trump should get the nobel. Everyone knows how to play this guy…except South Dakota farmers and ranchers, they will be played in a bad way.
Jerry
Yes, I did see how South Korea got a nice exemption and Moon showed that he got bought by Trump.
Moon is a real disappointment, I’m starting to think that Kim Jung Un may have more credibility than Trump and Moon.
John Thune was on the radio Monday trying to refute Rubio by saying we just can’t see all the good things the tax cuts for the rich are doing.
Thune also pointed out that the Emperor is indeed wearing clothes, the finest clothes….
http://jobsanger.blogspot.com/2018/04/most-americans-getting-nothing-from-new.html
Most Americans get nothing from koch bros taxcuts.
Thune is right, “we just can’t see all the good the tax cuts for rich are doing”.
Americans can’t see what is not there, however the middle class will soon feel those tax cuts when it is time to pay for them.
Rubio can see the BLUE handwriting on the wall and is trying to save himself from the blue tsunami next time he’s up for re-election. He knows there’s a lot of hate for him in Florida and he’s trying to find redemption.
The GOP tax scam is a give away to their owners named Koch, Mercer, Scaife, etc. That’s who Thune represents, not SD.
I’d written:
Roger replies:
Indeed I wrongly did. Apologies to both of you.
I’d written:
“o” replies:
That argument isn’t in the article I’d cited, and I’ve never especially liked it, but it doesn’t employ circular reasoning. Here’s the original context:
https://answersingenesis.org/logic/not-sound-logic/
“o” quotes:
“Science” in general is only “true” if we define it in a way that excludes both unintentional mistakes and intentional lies.
Jerry writes:
Jerry’s comment raises a great point. Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution puts the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations in the legislative branch of government, not the executive. The following is from the national platform of the Constitution Party:
Marco Rubio just soiled himself, and it only took a day!
“On the whole, the tax cut bill helps workers. It’s just not massive tax cuts to multinational corporations that do it.
Overall, the Republican tax-cut bill has been good for Americans. That is why I voted for it. But it could have been even better for American workers and their families.
The central reason why it wasn’t is that in the new economy, it isn’t enough to just cut taxes; you have to cut the right ones.” https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/corporate-tax-cuts-must-help-working-families-marco-rubio/
The Red Wave is really just with the middle finger to working people across this great land. Rubio gives farmers, ranchers and anyone who toils for a living, the middle finger salute.
“Tolls for a living”
Bride says toils is correct. Do gone English is getting difficult as I get older.