NewBostonPost Endorses Donald Trump for President, Part 2 – The Home Front
By NBP Editorial Board | October 25, 2024, 10:05 EDT
Joe Biden has done a horrible job presiding over the country’s domestic affairs. Kamala Harris has given no evidence she would do any better.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, presided over prosperity during most of his time in office, thanks to policies designed to promote freedom and growth.
This is the second in a planned series of three editorials explaining why the NewBostonPost is endorsing Trump for a second term in the White House in the November 2024 election.
We reiterate our sentiment from earlier in the week that Americans are faced with an unfortunate choice between two flawed politicians – Trump, a narcissist with many character flaws; and Harris, an empty suit who has been complicit in Biden’s execrable presidential term and is unable to articulate what policies she would seek to implement. Indeed, it is discouraging that such a great country cannot produce better presidential candidates.
But only two people have a chance to win the election Tuesday, November 5. And while both have bad qualities, they are not equally bad, and one has a record of achievement worth recommending.
The Preamble of the United States Constitution, which schoolchildren all across America used to memorize, goes as follows: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America,”
In this editorial, we focus on two phrases in the Preamble: “ensure domestic Tranquility” and “promote the general welfare.” Donald Trump accomplished these goals during his presidency. What has the Biden/Harris administration accomplished?
First consider the Biden/Harris administration’s huge fiscal deficits, which led to soaring inflation during the past three and a half years. In the three years following the COVID pandemic (2022, 2023, 2024), the Biden/Harris administration spent far more money than the federal government got in revenue, racking up fiscal deficits totaling $4.9 trillion. Long after the emergency ended, Biden and Harris overspent at an epic level, damaging the economy.
The Consumer Price Index has risen 20.7 percent since Biden and Harris took office in January 2021. Skyrocketing prices at the supermarket and gas station and everywhere else have affected every household in the country, but working-class and middle-class families have felt the pain more than affluent households. (So much for the Democrats as the party of the common man.)
In contrast, the average annual inflation rate during the Trump administration was less than 2 percent.
Secondly, the Biden/Harris administration on day one reversed Trump’s policies on the border, including the Trump-era rule that asylum-seekers had to remain on the Mexico side of the border while their claim was pending. Instead, Biden and Harris implemented a catch-and-release policy that let perhaps 10 million (and perhaps more) migrants into this country since they took office. The result has been disastrous. Small communities throughout the country have been burdened and, in some cases, crushed by the influx. Criminals wanted in their native land have roamed unimpeded for months and even years in the land of the free lunch. Foreign-centered urban gangs have flourished. Fentanyl and other drugs have poured in.
This border policy was not a mistake. Biden and Harris and other national Democrats want millions of illegal immigrants in the country so they can eventually become citizens and vote for Democrats. They don’t care what damage it does to the country.
The Biden/Harris administration has also used federal power to try to buy votes. One example is the $430 billion “forgiveness” of student loans – designed to capture more votes from young people at the expense of everyone else.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against this unconstitutional vote buying scheme in July 2023, but the Biden/Harris administration is trying an end-around – essentially governing by fiat, without approval by Congress. (Remind us: Who is the threat to democracy?)
Harris is promising to let the Trump tax cuts of 2017 expire in 2025. She also says she wants to enact a series of new taxes, one of which is a tax on unrealized capital gains.
Let that sink in: Unrealized. That means that the people who have supposedly benefited from the gain haven’t gotten any actual money from it. Instead, they have been running a business that has increased in value. Now they’re supposed to pay higher taxes on it just because they own it and it is theoretically worth more than it used to be – without any sale having taken place.
Yes, the proposed new tax is aimed only at people with a net worth of $100 million or more. But multimillionaires aren’t the only ones who would feel the effects. Business owners would divert money that might have gone to hiring more employees to pay this new tax, fattening up the Harris administration’s federal tax coffers instead of expanding their business. It’s a sort of invisible unemployment scheme. This disastrous proposal is reason enough to vote against Harris.
With Donald Trump, we do not need to speculate about his policies; we can examine his record when he served as President between 2017 and 2021. Illegal immigration was much lower. The country’s real Gross Domestic Product grew between 2.5 and 3 percent each year until the coronavirus hit. The Trump tax cuts brought approximately $500 billion in corporate funds parked overseas back to the United States for investment in America.
The Trump tax cuts were not skewed to the rich, as is often falsely stated by politicians and media. They favored the working and middle classes. And importantly, during the Trump administration, unemployment for African-Americans and Latinos reached the lowest level since this metric began to be followed.
Trump reduced regulations and removed obstacles for energy companies to drill and produce more oil and natural gas’ lowering prices at the pump. He focused on growing the economy, not killing it with regulations and U.S. Department of Justice lawsuits.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan posed a question to Jimmy Carter and the American people: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” And the answer, of course, was no; people generally felt worse off.
In 2024, it’s in some ways an even more poignant question: Are you better off now than you were when Trump was president?
The answer, of course, is no.
The country needs to return President Trump to office in order to carry out the mission of your government, as stated in the Preamble to the Constitution: establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.
Vote for Trump.
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