Posted on 09/06/2017 2:05:01 PM PDT by HokieMom
President Donald Trump held a rally in North Dakota on Wednesday in support of tax reform.
Liberal Senator Heidi Heidkamp flew with the Republican president to North Dakota for the event.
President Trump won North Dakota in November 2016 by 36 points.
At today’s tax reform rally President Trump called up the North Dakota lawmakers on stage and liberal Senator Heidkamp in a gesture of their support for tax reform.
Trump said he hopes to have her support on tax reform.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Trump: "Senator Heidi Heitkamp, she’s a good woman, and I hope we’ll have her support." 4:29 PM - Sep 6, 2017
Well, I suppose there’s something to be said for “Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer” but I’m not sure that if I were Prez, Heitkamp would be riding with me in AF One.
IMHO, it could give NoDak voters the false impression that Heitkamp has Trump’s support of some kind. I’m not sure her voting record has been too supportive of Trump since he took office.
She was trying to hide....lol
Trump kicks ass and we will have our tax cuts....
To watch the President’s speech at the link, slide the little red dot to 55:30.
“Well, I suppose there’s something to be said for “Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer”
The dems have nothing. They have no leaders no talking points no issues
The republicans are against trump worse than if they were the opposition party. Truly
What if trump considers getting dems on board with him
What the heck?
Oh. And he has no friends in politics to keep close
DACA is DemoCACA! What about TACO: Trump’s Action for Childhood Outsiders?
A Master Persuader at work.
For Immediate ReleaseSeptember 05, 2017
Remarks by President Trump Before Meeting on Tax Reform
Roosevelt Room
4:10 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. I’m pleased to be here with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and the two leaders of our tax-writing committee, Chairman Orrin Hatch and Chairman Kevin Brady, who have been working on tax reform for months with our Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and Gary Cohn, our National Economic Council Director.
Since the day I took office, we’ve added 1.2 million private sector jobs, and a lot more than that if you go from the time we actually got elected, November 8th, including 125,000 manufacturing jobs. And we just had another very good month for manufacturing and the jobs. You probably all saw that.
But if we’re going to keep this momentum going and allow the economy to truly take off as it should, it is vital that we reduce the crushing tax burden on our companies and on our workers. We pay the highest tax of any country in the world on businesses and we can’t keep doing that.
Last week, I repeated my principles for tax reform. First, we must make the tax code as simple as possible. It’s extremely complex, it’s not fair, and it’s extremely hard to understand. So we want to make it as simple as possible.
Second, we must provide tax relief for middle-class workers and families.
Third, we must restore our competitive edge, which we’ve lost. We’re doing fine, but we lost the competitive edge; you see what’s going on all over the world. So we can have real job growth throughout America — we can’t be the jobs magnet of the world if we continue to tax our industries at rates 60 percent higher than companies in other countries. Can’t do it.
And finally, we must bring back trillions of dollars that are currently parked overseas. We have, in my opinion, $4 trillion — $4 trillion. Massive amounts of money that can’t come back to our country because of our tax code and because of the rates.
And this is more than just tax reform,; this is tax cutting, to put it in a very simple term. We’re going to cut taxes. We’re going to reduce taxes for people, for individuals, for middle-income families. We are going to reduce taxes for our companies. And those companies are going to produce jobs.
Tax reform that follows these principles will create millions of new jobs and ensure that more products are stamped with the very beautiful letters and words: Made in the USA. It’s time to lower our taxes, bring back our wealth, and make America the jobs magnet that it can become, and pretty quickly. It’s really, in other words, an expression — I don’t know if too many of you have heard it — it’s time to make America great again. Has anybody heard that expression? (Laughter.)
So that’s what we’re doing. We’re making America great again. You see it in the numbers, you see it with jobs, you see it with companies moving back in. They’re moving back in at very, very big numbers. They’re coming back into our country, and you haven’t seen that for a long time. So we’re very proud of that.
So we’re now going to discuss tax reform and tax cuts, and I appreciate you being here. Thank you everybody, very much. Thank you.
Q Mr. President, how is you DACA position treating DREAMers “with heart”?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I have a great heart for the folks we’re talking about — a great love for them. And people think in terms of children, but they’re really young adults. I have a love for these people, and hopefully now Congress will be able to help them and do it properly.
And I can tell you, in speaking to members of Congress, they want to be able to do something and do it right. And really, we have no choice. We have to be able to do something, and I think it’s going to work out very well. And long-term, it’s going to be the right solution.
Thank you very much everybody.
END
4:14 P.M. EDT
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/09/05/remarks-president-trump-meeting-tax-reform
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate ReleaseSeptember 06, 2017
The Bismarck Tribune: “Area business leaders eager to hear Trump’s ideas on tax reform”
“’The U.S. tax code is bloated, cumbersome and long overdue for reform,’ [Gov.] Burgum said in a statement. ‘Fortunately, President Trump recognizes that he and this Congress have a once-in-a-generation chance to simplify the tax code and cut taxes in a way that allows American workers and families to keep more of their hard-earned income.’”
Area business leaders eager to hear Trump’s ideas on tax reform
By Amy Dalrymple
The Bismarck Tribune
September 5, 2017
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The Mandan Refinery will be the backdrop Wednesday as President Donald Trump discusses the need for tax reform, a message several area business leaders are eagerly awaiting.
“We pay too much tax in this country, and I believe it restricts the free enterprise system,” said Steve Herman, owner of AAction Movers in Bismarck.
Herman and his wife, Marcia, are among the small business owners Rep. Kevin Cramer invited to hear Trump speak.
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“Any tax relief would be a benefit to everyone, I believe,” Herman said.
Trump is expected to highlight personal stories from North Dakotans about the need for tax reform, including talking about Julie Ellingson, executive vice president of the North Dakota Stockmen’s Association and a fourth-generation cattle rancher in Morton County.
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Scott Meske, president of the Bismarck-Mandan Chamber of Commerce, said he’s particularly interested to hear how Trump’s tax reform plan would affect small businesses, which represent 85 percent of the chamber’s members.
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Kathy Neset, a geologist and owner of Neset Consulting in Tioga, said she was asked to be part of a small group to greet Trump at the refinery on behalf of the North Dakota Petroleum Council.
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“I would love to see some lower corporate tax rates and a simplified plan for all Americans,” Neset said.
Gov. Doug Burgum, who will greet Trump at the Bismarck airport, said he’s looking forward to discussing how tax reform can benefit workers, farmers, ranchers, businesses and families.
“The U.S. tax code is bloated, cumbersome and long overdue for reform,” Burgum said in a statement. “Fortunately, President Trump recognizes that he and this Congress have a once-in-a-generation chance to simplify the tax code and cut taxes in a way that allows American workers and families to keep more of their hard-earned income.”
Cramer said the refinery will be a good backdrop for Trump to highlight why tax reform is needed and how it will affect Middle America.
The rest:
She did seem self-conscious! It was cute. President Trump called her a ‘good woman.’ Lots of smiling and laughter.
She was the only dem to vote against expanded gun control after Sandy Hook. She supports Keystone XL and a balanced budget.
That’s good enough. Time to lose the hangup about “R” being beside the name. She’s at least as conservative as McConnell and Ryan and half the GOP.
Glad to see Trump looking elsewhere for deals.
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate ReleaseSeptember 06, 2017
Tax Reform Unleashes America’s Economic Potential
“If we want to renew our prosperity, and to restore opportunity, then we must reduce the tax burden on our companies and on our workers.” – President Donald J. Trump
TAX REFORM FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH: President Donald J. Trump’s tax reform will revitalize the American economy and create millions of jobs.
There are plenty of GOPe’s that are far more liberal than Heitkamp. McLame, Linda G., the Senators from Maine and Alaska who’s names i refuse to utter, for example. There are many more...
I remember she was approached after DJT was elected and asked if she wanted to change parties. Maybe there’s still hope.
‘Zactly - how’s the R after Flake, McCain, Graham, Ryan, e t al, worked out?
FOX BusinessVerified account @FoxBusiness 59s59 seconds ago
.@KellyannePolls told FBN if Congress simplifies the tax code, it'll do away with "billions of dollars we spend each year trying to comply."
FOX BusinessVerified account @FoxBusiness 13m13 minutes ago
.@POTUS pushed for an overhaul in tax reform on Wednesday in Mandan, ND.
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