Posted on 04/11/2011 3:33:42 PM PDT by aphid
For example, Trump professes to support free trade, yet proposes a 25% tax on imported goods from China to level what he sees as trade imbalances in the global economy. It's a contemptuous proposal which would immediately punish Americans by raising the price on virtually everything we buy.
He has also called for regulators to stop European stock operator Deutsche Börse's planned $9.5 billion buyout of the NYSE Euronext, telling Fox Business Network, "I don't want foreign countries owning the New York Stock Exchange." If he was the president, he added, he "wouldn't even have allowed the discussions to take place." In a capitalist country, shareholders make that kind of decision, not regulators. Trump sees a clear role for government picking winners and losers in the economy, just the same as the previous presidents he claims to critique.
On top of that, he has pushed for a one-time 14.25% tax on the rich as a means of supplementing funding for Social Security and Medicaid, along with universal health care . Philosophically, those positions are indistinguishable from the anti-capitalist political establishment now in power.
Trump, of course, is free to run and support whatever platform he wishes, as are his many fans across the country. But despite his personal fortune, they should know his proposals and political philosophy are far from capitalist. Punitive and redistributionist taxes, centralized planning, barriers to trade and an entitlement "social safety net" are all ideas straight out of Karl Marx, not John Galt.
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Sorry, I realized that after I hit Post.
I heard him describing himself as a Christian the other day. It seemed plastic and fake.
I think it is fine that he is talking about the BC, if only more mainstream people would bring it up.
But I don’t think he is anything more than a sleazy, plastic guy. I respect his navigation through the business world, but that has long since ceased to be any kind of qualification, beginning (for me) in the 1992 election.
He’s no Republican either.
LOL...to many, that is a bonus, not a detraction!
You’re right. It wasn’t meant that way though.
Bump
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