Vance has suggested a break with the Republican Party’s economic orthodoxy of the last several decades on a range of policy issues, including unions, antitrust, trade and taxes, even making comments that appear at odds with Trump, who already scrambled the party’s ideology.
The first-term senator has embraced a more active role for government intervention in the economy than most Republicans, emerging as a leader of a minority faction among GOP senators that also includes Sens.
Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.). Vance has praised President Biden’s antitrust crusader at the Federal Trade Commission, called for a higher minimum wage and even once called for raising taxes on corporations — all positions anathema to conservatives. The departure is particularly stark compared with the vice president of Trump’s first term, Mike Pence, who branded himself as an adherent of Ronald Reagan by embodying GOP orthodoxy on issues ranging from deficits to taxes, or former House speaker Paul D. Ryan, another GOP vice-presidential nominee known for his free-market orthodoxy.
Alarm over Vance’s connection for support for FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan has spread among top business executives and donors, said one senior business figure, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share candid opinions.
Vance said earlier this year that Khan is “doing a pretty good job,” citing the FTC crackdown on tech giants.
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@SenateMantisDemocrat2yrs2Y
JD Vance also is crafty enough to know that the the coal mines and VCR factory jobs aren't coming back to Bug Tussle, Appalachia, but rather than tell them the truth about their need for better education and training (and the support that government funding can provide for these things), he'd rather exploit their resentment and anger and tell them that that migrant workers are the reason their VCR factory job dried up as they became addicted to painkillers.
With all due respect, "education" and "training" for what? I'm not sure what the solution to outsourcing and job loss due to digitization is but scolding bromides about more "education" and "training" are not it. What people need is an economy that produces jobs that pay a living wage. How you get there is the big question.
Dear millionaires and billionaires, I’ll explain this so even you can understand.
Putin-style fascism is very bad for business. The state subsumes your companies, and sucks them into a kleptocratic mob.
Those who don’t go along, tend to mysteriously fall out of windows. Sounds great to you? Gonna donate?
@SadBi11R1ghtsGreen2yrs2Y
Unfortunately for all of us...most of them are only concerned about next quarter's profit sheet. Not their defenestration prospects 7 months from now.
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