Trade deals are not the VEHICLE for raising or lowering STANDARDS of PROTECTION for consumers, the environment, WORKERS or ANYONE else. Regulations are made by governments and parliaments.

Eliminating or substantially lowering just one MAJOR monthly expense can GIVE you enough cushion to MOVE into a more COMFORTABLE place financially.

If there is one ISSUE where one could justifiably assume that REPUBLICANS are all in AGREEMENT, it is on lowering taxes.

I don't see how a lowering of VAT HELPS much, in TERMS of stimulus. VAT is a form of sales tax. It gets PAID when you SPEND. A stimulus should put money in your POCKET before you have actually spent the money.

President OBAMA ALWAYS GIVES lip SERVICE to lowering the corporate TAX rate, but he never specifies a particular rate or an overall plan.

If you opened up every single potential drilling OPPORTUNITY in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas PRICES three cents, maybe. And that's because, of course, OIL is traded on a GLOBAL MARKET.