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I just defended Donald Trump from Maureen Dowd's school-girlish characterization on another thread. I say this to defend against charges of Trump bashing. Now, however there is reason to criticize Trump's remarks concerning taxes.

Tax policy must be coherent that is it considered as a whole and sold to the public as a unified, comprehensive piece that adequately finances the nation while doing it as fairly as possible. Picking out one group ad hoc to demonize and then in the next breath say that you want to reduce taxes for the middle class smacks of demagoguery. Hedge fund operators don't have enough money to fund the government or even to relieve the middle class of some of its burdens. Is this a tendency with Trump, to set one group against another?

I have pointed out the discrepancies between Trump's public statements and what he actually wrote in his immigration paper. There are discrepancies even though Trump's paper is in advance of the other candidates. But we ought to know what it is Trump is selling before we jump on his bandwagon. Similarly, we ought to be very careful of Trump's verbal ad hoc pronouncements, especially about fiscal policy. I think we should await Trump's paper on taxes and maintain a healthy level of skepticism concerning oral pronouncements coming from Donald Trump.

It appears many freepers are in fact socialists to some degree..

Some more other less.. but still socialists..
And actually them and TRUMP are ideological cousins..
No wonder their for TRUMP..

Being a socialist to any degree IS TREASON..

I agree. Elsewhere he has talked about lower rates, though still progressive---but he called for some very low taxes on everyone. I think that is key. Every citizen needs to pay something.

While I'm guessing he supports this, I haven't yet seen him call for reductions in capital gains taxes to reduce the exodus of money offshore.

Moreover we know that he spent time with Steve Forbes and Art Laffer, both flat tax guys. This doesn't reflect that at all.