Sorry, odawg, but, from what I’ve seen, Donald Trump is no Ronald Reagan. Reagan pushed through a 23% ACROSS-THE-BOARD cut of individual income tax rates. Trump would give NON-CRIMINAL illegal aliens legal status and I can’t believe that anyone would seriously support the idea of SOMEHOW sending MILLIONS of illegals “home” only to bring them back ASAP, which is what Trump has said he would do. It’s not practical, it would be VERY costly and, in the final analysis, he agrees with most of the other GOP candidates that these folks would be allowed a pathway to legal status.
When he ran for the Reform Party in 2000, Trump absolutely supported universal health care, and has voiced support for a single-payer system a number of times.
• “If you can’t take care of your sick in the country, forget it, it’s all over. ... I believe in universal healthcare,” Trump on Larry King in October 1999.
• “I would put forth a comprehensive health care program and fund it with an increase in corporate taxes, “ Trump told The Advocate in 2000.
• “The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than America. … We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing,” —from Trump’s 2000 book The America We Deserve.
To date, Trump has said very little about what he would replace Obamacare with, but he most certainly has supported a single payer system in the past. As for Trump’s “change of views” on guns and abortion, it wasn’t until he decided to run as a Republican that he did so.
“Trump would give NON-CRIMINAL illegal aliens legal status...”
That is a joke. Has stated MANY times he will deport them ALL. Has not even hinted at legal status for illegals. You may have him confused with all the other Republican candidates.
“...can’t believe that anyone would seriously support the idea of SOMEHOW sending MILLIONS of illegals “home” only to bring them back ASAP, which is what Trump has said he would do.”
No. Did you listen to his words? He said he would allow those who benefit the COUNTRY (not just themselves) back in, and he mentions top college students in the same breath.
“..in the final analysis, he agrees with most of the other GOP candidates that these folks would be allowed a pathway to legal status.”
I am surprised that you admit that. Legal status is amnesty, no matter how you slice it, and when that happens, the nation is over. There are 20 - 30 million illegals here, and they would vote overwhelmingly Democrat. You just faulted him for granting illegals legal status in the first sentence I quoted. Trump has never hinted at legal status for illegals.
Healthcare: I am not concerned with what Trump may have said FIFTEEN freakin’ years ago. People change, circumstances change. Do you really think you are the same person you were fifteen years ago?
“To date, Trump has said very little about what he would replace Obamacare with, but he most certainly has supported a single payer system in the past.”
He says it will be MARKET BASED (which rules out single payer). He has been releasing details for his plans, I suppose he will on that. However, can you recite to me the details of any other candidate’s replacement plans for Obamacare, or anything else, for that matter?
“Trump would give NON-CRIMINAL illegal aliens legal status “
That’s exactly the opposite of what his illegal immigration plan is.
Making stuff up doesn’t fly here.