Posted on 04/21/2016 2:08:04 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
GUTHRIE: Do you believe in raising taxes on the wealthy?
TRUMP: I do. I do – including myself. I do.
That was...this morning, in an interview that featured some other controversial statements. In fairness to Trump, he's been using the "raise taxes on rich people like me" line for months, embracing Obama-style class warfare tax gimmicks like the 'Buffet Rule.' But raising taxes on anyone, an outcome Trump just re-endorsed, is not what his formal policy agenda proposes. Just the opposite. As we've seen on issues such immigration, abortion and foreign policy, Trump routinely makes clear that he isn't familiar with his own positions. His stances aren't rooted in conviction, coherent ideological underpinnings or governing philosophy. They "evolve" and morph depending on how Trump is feeling in any given moment. Some professed conservatives may be perfectly comfortable voting for a tax-hiking, entitlement reform-opposing critic of Ronald Reagan's tax cuts. But many Republicans, including a 62 percent majority of GOP primary voters thus far, aren't eager to turn the keys of the party over to someone whose record and current statements build a strong case against the proposition that he's reliable conservative -- or much of a conservative at all. Parting thought: It's astonishing that this man appeals to people who loathe establishment "insider" types. Earlier in the answer above, longtime Democratic donor chuckles with multimillionaire celebrity newsman Matt Lauer about all the fancy parties they've attended together with hotshot bankers in New York. Man of the people.
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“I could go on... were you really interested?”
No because just a many people if not more say Trumps plan is a really good one. Jeff Sessions for one.
They are as mindful to the actual facts as anything. You are the one being mindless.
New law? Surely you jest. Put your best panties on and go take a shower at the YWCA. Let me know how that works out for ya.
Truthiness. A one significant figure answer lacks truthiness.
No, he’s talked about it many times in his rallies. Was one of the first things that caught my attention about him while watching one of his rallies many months ago and before it was published on his website.
Trump said he wanted to raise taxes on ‘people like me’
I do not see anything on his website beyond getting rid of the carried interest loophole ( Which I whole heartly support, I know some hedgies and family office types) that he has also spoken about before.
So Trump will be taxing all real estate developers and those who license their brands at a high rate.
What we dont know are the new brackets and cutoff points.
What kind of argument is that, what is it supposed to prove? It is a fallacy so fallacious there isn’t even a name for it.
And, it’s also asking the man to step out of his prospective Constitutional role.
Since corporate taxes are incorporated in the price of goods now, the poor already pay them, they just don’t realize it. If we plainly inserted the tax at the point of sale you would see liberals start demanding tax reductions and smaller. government.
Hoodat: This has been Trump's position for six months.
Greetings_Puny_Humans: This has been Trump's position for six months.
Hoodat: That's exactly what I've been saying
Greetings_Puny_Humans: You are a liar and a retard.
It's a 30% national sales tax. Good luck with that.
Good for you. Keep them in freaking New York.
Trump was talking about the hedge fund type rich who get away by not paying taxes.
But mentioning that doesn’t fit the mantra.
Fine with me.
Your hatred really controls you. It’s sad.
I suspect of the entire north.
No surprise, a little background research shows you to be a total fraud on the issue of fiscal conservatism when it comes to the big government program that you like - war.
And not just war, but stupid, pointless wars that drag on and on and have cost TRILLIONS.
I suppose you’re content to stick the bill for all that on the tab of future generations - after all they don’t get to vote on it, right? ha ha won’t they be surprised!
In the contest of taxes vs. debt as a method of funding the government, there’s no contest - taxes are the more conservative option of the two. And since the rich now own the government 100% lock stock and barrel and the rest of us have zero input, they can pay for their own damn bailouts, you know - the bailouts that they get and none of the rest of us do. While the cost is still stuck on the tab of future generations.
You got a freaking Sequoia in thine eye there, bub.
So according to you, I should ignore what Trump actually says and go by what someone else posted on a website.
Lol, he has no Constitutional role, wouldn’t know the Constitution if it bit him on his behind and there is nothing fallacious about stating that laws in America have barred men from women’s bathrooms and locker rooms for many, many moons.
Gee, I think Cruz is proposing that!!!
That should have never been enacted. They and other states as well already have laws enacted. We don’t need anymore laws, state, federal, etc
Hate? Grow up.
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Oh, you're pulling rank on me, as it were? That's pretty lame. But go ahead. I was never in the military. Except for JROTC.
But go ahead war hero. Tell us what about your service.
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