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Ambrose: First 100 days of the anti-Trump crowd

By Jay Ambrose
Published: April 30, 2017, 6:01am

President Donald Trump’s plan to drop corporate taxes from 35 percent to 15 percent could make the United States more competitive in the world marketplace. It could lead to business expansion. It could create jobs. Along with other sweeping tax measures, it could help institute greater economic growth, helping to solve a wide swath of social issues.

And what’s the leftist alternative?

It’s higher corporate taxes. That, at least, is what Hillary Clinton stood for during the presidential campaign, and the consequence would likely be even more anemic growth, fewer jobs and lower wages.

The contrast is interesting at this particular juncture because so many commentators are busily assessing Trump’s first 100 days in an office he won less because of enthusiasm for what he stood for than disgust at the alternative. So how about a quickie glance at what signals the anti-Trump crowd has given during this first 100 days of what it would give us if in charge.

We would be less a home of the free, that’s for sure. The Democrats have been cursing about Trump rolling back regulations encapsulating liberty and we have had Democratic senators wanting to rewrite the First Amendment to give politicians more power over free speech.

Hostility to opposing views

Some have sought to investigate those disagreeing with them on global warming and, meanwhile, on college campuses, groups of anti-Trump, anti-conservative, narcissistic, spoiled students have been doing their best to shut up conservative intellectuals offering views different from their own.

More civil but far more frightening were too many Democratic senators showing in their interrogation of Neil Gorsuch as a nominee to the Supreme Court that they do not believe in judicial decisions based strictly on law and the facts. They simply want outcomes favoring the down and out, which would be an abandonment of rule of law. Without it, our republic folds and everyone is down and out, and that apparently is what mayors and other officials of sanctuary cities want, too.

Other first-hundred-days things to consider include media bias that cheats the public and dishonors blessed standards. There have been the-sky-is-falling attacks on Trump for his own attacks on climate-change plans that accomplish nothing at major expense. Environmentalists have been outraged that he is going ahead with the Keystone XL pipeline shown to be safe by thousands of pages of scientific work backed up by varied federal agencies. Scientists in a recent pro-science demonstration in Washington seem to have ignored leftist anti-science positions.

None of this is by way of shrugging shoulders at Trump’s inattentiveness to a crisis-seeking federal debt that could be worsened by the tax cuts. None should like it that he is playing around with new tariffs that would raise prices and cost jobs or that he wants a southern-border wall that would accomplish no more than other methods billions of dollars cheaper.

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