Donald Trump's economic policies are working, nothing else is but

Groups who conveniently got a tax cut putting more money in their hands.

 

Which wasn't really that convenient since the economy was already growing and that's the time to start paying down the debt and not increase it. There was no real need for more stimulus to increase growth

Before you start running your mouth about the debt growth during Obama's turn, the time to increase the debt spending is during a recession, and we had a giant one at the start of Obama's term.

 

Donald Trump's only economic policy is to get more money in his pocket. So yes, his policy is working by that measure.

I guess anyone can take credit for the work of the previous president, even the idiot Trump.

 

That's pretty amazing. Usually, the current office holder gets most of the credit regardless of whether or not they deserve it. Now, most people don't even give credit to Trump.

 

Americans aren't totally stupid. Just Trump supporters

 

All I see are similar #s to the partisan divide. It's like tribalism has won and it's becoming more difficult to compartmentalize serious political issues (in the context of a poll at least).

 

Thorough fact-check of trump's economic accomplishments in response to his speech at Davos... and trump tries to take what might have been a positive report card and blatantly lies to exaggerate his accomplishments, betrayed by his own administration numbers released as he was giving the speech.

https://apnews.com/cbf09fb819724aee...CT-CHECK:-So-where's-Trump's-3-percent-growth

 

He decreased unemployment from 30% under obama to the lowest its ever been.

 

He’s a lying racist is all ya need to know.

 

And this despite none of his policies even having a chance yet to be implemented!

 

Absolutely. Or even discussion in general.

 

I just landed a job last week that pays me 15,000 more dollars a year

 

Did you write Trump a thank you letter?

 

Does it pay $15,000?

 

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/chines...r-plant-a-week-after-trump-tariffs-1517265369

Chinese Firm Announces U.S. Solar Plant, a Week After Trump Tariffs
JinkoSolar doesn’t offer details but says it is monitoring ‘treatment of imports’

By
Erin Ailworth
Jan. 29, 2018 5:36 p.m. ET
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A Chinese solar manufacturer said Monday that it plans to open a plant in the U.S., a week after President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on imported solar panels.

JinkoSolar JKS 2.47% Holding Co. said Monday that its board has authorized the company “to finalize planning for the construction of an advanced solar manufacturing facility in the U.S.”

The company tucked news of its U.S. manufacturing plans into an announcement about an agreement to supply an unnamed U.S. customer with 1.75 gigawatts of solar panels over about three years.

It appeared to tie the proposed facility to Mr. Trump’s recent tariff decision, which would tax imported solar panels and cells at 30% in the first year. The tariff would decline to 15% in the fourth and final year.

“ JinkoSolar JKS 2.47% continues to closely monitor treatment of imports of solar cells and modules under the U.S. trade laws,” the company said.

Mr. Trump had hoped his new tariffs, which also include similar import restrictions on washing machines, would lead foreign companies to shift production to the U.S. His trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, has said the imposition and threats of trade barriers against Tokyo in the 1980s helped spur Japanese auto makers to build factories in the U.S.

“It will provide a strong incentive for LG and Samsung to follow through on their recent promises to build major manufacturing plants for washing machines” in the U.S., Mr. Trump said last week.

A spokeswoman for JinkoSolar JKS 2.47% declined to give more detail about the company’s plans.

Records filed with Jacksonville, Fla., show that a company code-named Project Volt, billed as a “leading international manufacturer of solar panels and modules,” wants to open what would be “the company’s first manufacturing and assembly operation in the U.S.” The company has committed to investing $410 million, and creating as many as 800 jobs, by the end of 2019, according to city documents.

Jacksonville officials have approved more than $24 million in incentives for the project, a city spokeswoman said. She declined to comment on any ties between Project Volt and JinkoSolar.

Mr. Trump’s decision to impose tariffs was the result of a petition by two embattled solar manufacturers with operations in the U.S., who said their business had been undercut by a flood of cheap solar imports. In lobbying for the trade protections, they argued that a tariff would force foreign competitors to open manufacturing facilities—and bring thousands of jobs—to the U.S.

Domestic solar installers, which employ many more people than the relatively small U.S. solar manufacturing sector, largely opposed the tariffs. They said they stand to lose some 23,000 jobs in 2018 as the tariff raises solar prices, which they anticipate would reduce sales.

—Jacob M. Schlesinger contributed to this article.​

 

I love how people think that it only takes a week for a company to decide to give everyone a raise or for a foreign company to make a strategic investment because of a tariff.

People are really trying hard to give Trump credit