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Old 11-06-2020, 11:16 AM   #59586
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Originally Posted by JustRachel View Post
Well, yeah, sort of.

Bush left a mess. The economy was trash. During the Obama administration it turned around and trended upward.

Trump inherited that upward trend. The economy was actually in pretty good shape in 2017 when Trump took office. And it was trending toward even better days.
It takes more to improve something that is good than it does to improve something that is bad. Yes, the economy was trending up. But that doesn't mean the market/economy would have reached new heights if Hillary had become president. Her differences in taxes and big business would have surely had a different outcome.
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