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Trump Shows His Solid Policy Chops
Newsmax.com ^ | Betsy McCaughey

Posted on 05/05/2016 5:52:22 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

The rap on Donald Trump is that he’s all bluster. The New York Times says he’s offering “incoherent mishmash.” Ted Cruz claims Trump has “no idea” how to fix the economy.

Don’t’ believe it. The Trump campaign is putting forward proposals to fix problems facing the nation, from the long waits for medical care at the VA to the impending collapse of Obamacare.

Check out Trump’s economic plan, for starters. Unlike Hillary Clinton’s radical anti-business agenda, Trump’s plan would actually help unemployed Americans get back to work.

Trump slashes the corporate tax rate to 15 percent, down from the current 40 percent, the highest rate in the industrialized world. Not all American companies pay that staggering rate, but even after deductions and accounting maneuvers, companies in the U.S. end up clobbered with taxes nearly twice the global average (24 percent).

In Ireland, a magnet for tax-weary companies, the rate is only 12.5 percent, and their economy is growing about three times as fast as ours. Conversely, Japan and Argentina are stuck in the doldrums along with the U.S., partly because of their high corporate tax rates.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016issues; demagogicparty; economy; election2016; fairtax; flattax; memebuilding; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; taxcuts; taxreform; trump; trumpeconomy

1 posted on 05/05/2016 5:52:22 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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2 posted on 05/05/2016 5:54:09 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

A good article FRiend, the choice should be obvious even to double digit IQ voters, do they want:

1.) An aging socialist with a default position of ‘tax business’?

2.) An unindicted Communist who has said she’s going to ‘take things away from you’ for the common good?

or:

3.) An unabashed and unapologetic American capitalist who actually has extensive and successful business experience and has the tools to “Make America Great Again”?

It’s a no-brainer. VOTE FOR TRUMP.


3 posted on 05/05/2016 5:58:04 AM PDT by mkjessup (Unless you're a chump, vote for Trump, or your face might end up under Hillary's RUMP.)
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To: RoosterRedux

There’s plenty of policy papers on his web site. Even a two year old can find them. So what the &^%$ is everyone’s excuse?


4 posted on 05/05/2016 6:04:37 AM PDT by Snowybear
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To: RoosterRedux

Very sound economics.

However, there is virtually no sympathy out there at this point for corporations amongst the body politic. In order to sell this he is likely going to have to assuage those feelings by doing some very un-Conservative things, like restrictions on outsourcing and hiking the minimum wage.


5 posted on 05/05/2016 6:06:40 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

He sells it by communicating we need a level playing field. Fair Trade, fair wages, fair taxes.

He can also bundle his tarrif proposal into environmental concerns, by making countries who wish to sell in our country subject to our environmental, safety, and occupational regulations. Then reign in the EPA.


6 posted on 05/05/2016 6:24:27 AM PDT by PJammers (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: RoosterRedux
For young blacks with no job experience, he’s got plans. One is borrowed from the left-leaning Century Foundation. Every summer, the State Department brings about 100,000 young foreigners into the U.S. to work in restaurants, camps, and seaside resorts under J-1 visas. Trump says convert the program into a jobs bank for our own inner city youth.

This sounds fantastic.

7 posted on 05/05/2016 6:27:20 AM PDT by Claud
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To: Claud

Some good ideas here. I am willing to give Trump a chance to see what he can do-—Job Banks sound good to me.


8 posted on 05/05/2016 6:33:18 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: RoosterRedux

W could have done all this years ago, but he decided to grow the government instead and get Obama elected.


9 posted on 05/05/2016 6:36:29 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Claud

On paper, yes. However, if that actually goes through, it’ll be a big hit on the economy. Those J-1 holders actually show up for work, aren’t surly, and do the job they’re hired to do. Converting those slots into a “job bank” would result in thousands of unfilled positions, and tens of thousands more that open back up after a week or two when the “inner city youth” decide it’s too hard to actually show up, and quit.


10 posted on 05/05/2016 6:39:16 AM PDT by Little Pig
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To: RoosterRedux
It is wearing thin now from the 'Never Trumpers', and now the GOPE is telling Trump to be more like them in order to be elected POTUS.

Trump did not get where he is as a very successful businessman by listening to a bunch of whining LOSERS.

11 posted on 05/05/2016 6:45:59 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I think that is why he is holding firm on “raising taxes on the wealthy.”

Take away individual, but lower the corporate rate.


12 posted on 05/05/2016 6:48:48 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Little Pig

You’re writing off too many people. Sure, it’s hard to find good American workers of any kind today. But you will find some.

The principle is still good: jobs to Americans first, foreigners afterward.

Do this if you have concerns: reserve jobs for American applicants first. You show up, do a good job, fantastic. You don’t, then you lose your job and it goes to someone with a J-1.

The foreigners can still be there to pick up the slack.


13 posted on 05/05/2016 6:55:38 AM PDT by Claud
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To: Little Pig
Trump should put Ben Carson in charge of a program to help those few inner city youths who actually want out.

Carson knows exactly what the problem is and how to solve it.

14 posted on 05/05/2016 6:57:01 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Claud

I never said there wouldn’t be *any*. The J-1 program, as described in the article, brings in about 100,000 temp employees every year. Of those, some small percentage probably don’t work out, probably around 3000. My WAG is that if it were converted to a job bank for inner-city youth, with 100,000 available positions, you’d see about 1000-2000 where the applicant never shows at all, and probably about ~15,000 more where the applicant bails on the job after a couple of weeks. Of the ones that stay filled, the level of productivity is likely to be lower overall.

Now, if the “job bank” were open to any American, not just inner-city youth, then yes, the success rate and productivity level would probably be higher, but that’s not Trump’s proposal.


15 posted on 05/05/2016 7:11:57 AM PDT by Little Pig
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To: RoosterRedux
That is a great idea🤗 .
16 posted on 05/05/2016 7:15:01 AM PDT by lilypad
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To: Snowybear

laziness. some butt-hurts are even stating that Trump supporters need to win them over - prove to them why they should vote for Trump over Hillery - i guess because they are two damn lazy to study the man themselves. pathetic....


17 posted on 05/05/2016 7:23:43 AM PDT by sdpatriot ("Thank you very much, sdpatriot!! Smooch!" - from JR - send him a buck!!!!)
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To: mkjessup

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18 posted on 05/05/2016 7:34:20 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Little Pig

Perhaps tie government benefits to participation in the job bank.

No participation, sever cut in payouts. Something like that.


19 posted on 05/05/2016 7:37:37 AM PDT by Jay Thomas (If not for my faith in Christ, I would despair.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Never doubted him.


20 posted on 05/05/2016 1:16:04 PM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan ...(girl type) ANGRY? REFUSE TO VOTE?= HELLO HILLARY!)
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