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Senator Boxer Introduces Bill to Eliminate Electoral College
"This is the only office in the land where you can get more votes and still lose the presidency," Boxer said in a statement. "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately. Every American should be guaranteed that their vote counts."
[...] "When all the ballots are counted, Hillary Clinton will have won the popular vote by a margin that could exceed two million votes, and she is on track to have received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history except Barack Obama," Boxer said.
Trump will be the fifth president in U.S. history to win the election despite losing the popular vote. George W. Bush won the most recent such election, in 2000.
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3wLQz-LgrM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @11:07AM
I'll take the experience of living through the Reagan years and the booming 80's over some economic theory. Economists can be wrong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @07:05AM
Economics is complex. I won't deny that tax cuts can sometimes stimulate the economy, but the continuation of exclusively cutting taxes, and only for the wealthiest (which increases everyone else's tax burden), increases income inequality; moderate income inequality is fine, but eventually it becomes extreme enough that the whole system breaks, and thats where we're headed now.
A realistic, sensible tax policy would be based on research and evidence and would apply cuts or increases as necessary, whichever best fits the current situation and benefits the most, instead of today's absurd and unsustainable idea that the only thing that should be done with taxes is cutting them for the wealthiest of the wealthy (although whats really happening is that taxes are effectively being eliminated entirely for the wealthiest of the wealthy, leaving everyone else to pick up the tab, increasing income inequality; its unsustainable in the long term, but of course that's the next generation's problem, right?). There is no "One size fits all" solution to complex problems like the economy, we should be working to alter the political climate such that the best and most effective ideas can be used instead of everyone only dogmatically insisting on a single approach, one single solution, and then only trying that same solution even more extremely if it fails. Trickle-down and supply-side economics are unsustainable bullshit, but occasionally they might be the best short-term, temporary solution, and should be temporarily implemented if so but should not be the one and only, sole policy, pushed and pushed and pushed until everything breaks, like has been the case for decades. Politics and democracy only work through compromise, not despotically forcing your will and ideas on everyone else regardless of what they want or what would work best.