Essay On What's At Stake

“Two-thirds of those surveyed in recent polls believe the nation is on the wrong track 80 percent disapprove of the way Congress is doing its job” says Patricia Smith from the article What’s at Stake. Everyone does not like the candidates who is running for president. I believe Trump or Hillary should not become the next president because of their views on taxes, immigration, and terrorism.

Both candidates have different view on the economy. From What’s at Stake by Patricia Smith, the article states that “Clinton favors raising the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour.” Because she wants to raise the minimum wage, this would make businesses have to pay their workers more money. The businesses would not be able to pay all their workers because the minimum wage went up. They would have to fire some other their workers. From CNN news it states that “A new
From the article The Washington Post by Fred Hiatt it states that “In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in November, Hillary Clinton said that the United States needs to wage both “an immediate war against an urgent enemy” and “a generational struggle against an ideology with deep roots.” Starting a war against an enemy would not be a good idea. Because she wants to start a war for no reason, this would create a big problem. She does not need to start a war for no reason and have to kill innocent people. According to the article What’s at stake by Patricia Smith it says “Trump has promised to defeat ISIS by taking away the oil that funds the terrorist group. He also vows to increase the size of the U.S. military and “bomb the hell out of ISIS.” Because he wants to bomb ISIS, he would be bombing other people who are innocent. Just because ISIS is bad doesn’t mean you have to kill other people who are not part of that group. He would be killing some of the good people. The other good people would riot because he would have killed innocent people for no