Trump Just Attacked Scott Walker For Being Too Conservative

Real estate mogul Donald Trump continues to reveal his true leftist colors, smearing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) for being too conservative.

After Walker endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Trump unleashed a barrage of leftist talking points against Walker.

"There’s a $2.2 billion deficit and the schools were going begging and everything was going begging because he didn’t want to raise taxes ’cause he was going to run for president," Trump said. "So instead of raising taxes, he cut back on schools, he cut back on highways, he cut back on a lot of things."

Townhall's Guy Benson points out that Trump had previously leveled this smear towards Walker in September, even though The Washington Post, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org – all of which are leftist fact-checkers – all discredited the attack. Wisconsin had a projected $2.2 billion deficit at one point in 2014, but there was never an actual deficit since state law requires the budget to be balanced, which is what Walker did. Radio host Charlie Sykes confronted Trump on his lie, and Trump put the onus on Time Magazine, even though the magazine got the number from Trump himself.

But what's even more disturbing is that Trump's criticism of Walker suggests that Trump's first instinct is to raise taxes to balance the budget rather than conservative spending, which used to be a cardinal sin in Republican primaries. It's also bad economics, as economist Thomas Sowell explains:

In 1920, when the top tax rate was 73 percent, for people making over $100,000 a year, the federal government collected just over $700 million in income taxes-- and 30 percent of that was paid by people making over $100,000. After a series of tax cuts brought the top rate down to 24 percent, the federal government collected more than a billion dollars in income tax revenue-- and people making over $100,000 a year now paid 65 percent of the taxes.

How could that be? The answer is simple: People behave differently when tax rates are high as compared to when they are low. With low tax rates, they take their money out of tax shelters and put it to work in the economy, benefitting themselves, the economy and government, which collects more money in taxes because incomes rise.

High tax rates which very few people are actually paying, because of tax shelters, do not bring in as much revenue as lower tax rates that people are paying. It was much the same story after tax cuts during the Kennedy administration, the Reagan administration and the Bush Administration.

With conservatives growing increasingly distrustful of Trump, this smear against Walker will only continue to drive a wedge between Trump and conservatives going forward.

Fatez, IMO Cruz is nothing more than Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, and Romney.

Up until Cruz, those types were not working out for us.

We both agree with that.

Trump is different in that he hasn’t been working in Washington, D. C. off and on for 17 years. While he did donate to buy face time, I’ve not heard of him demanding anything from Hillary that I would object to.

We can argue over stuff like that until the cows come home. It won’t do any good.

Trump is a businessman with a proven record of producing.

Our nation needs a producer right now.

Since 1992, we have been unable to beat the likes of Clinton by more than the skin of our teeth. And when we did, that person let us down terribly.

So yes, some of us are backing someone different. The folks we settled on in the past have led us to where we are now.

Trump may not be the best man we’ve very had. He’s certainly going to be better than Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, and Romney.

Cruz having worked for bush, now teaming up with the Bushes, Rubio, Romney, and most likely Kasich too, I’m very comfortable with backing Trump.

What can I say.

I played along to vote Bush in the second time. How did the nation benefit? It came very close to going belly up.

I think Trump is what the good doctor ordered.

Every medication has side effects. Trump will too. They also frequently get the job done.

Trump will too. IMO.

I have gone through the same thought process and my answer is no, I will not vote in the Presidential election if Trump is the Republican candidate.

I live in Washington state which will not go red under any circumstances. Even though I have voted in the 4 last presidential elections here, my vote has never really meant anything when it came to our electoral votes. So not voting for him doesn’t really matter as my vote is only the exercise of my own personal opinion.

I will vote in all other down ticket races where my vote will matter and hopefully oust that moron Inslee from the governor’s office.

The last time my vote mattered in a Presidential election was in 1980, 1984, and 1988 when I lived and California and the state went to Reagan and then to GHW Bush.

The way I read it, Trump painted Walker as a selfish conservative - more concentrated on his political image than on his state. As many politicians are.

Trump is also appealing to conservative democrats to cross-over. People relate to schools with stained ceiling tiles which property taxes/state income taxes are supposed to support. And then there’s potholes on the way to work, unemployment, etc. All cross-over topics.

and you should also take into account that we are day 3 into a 100-day campaign to sink Trump. If he sneezes into the wrong color or brand hankie, it will become some sort of issue.

You have not done anything to warrant any abuse and I don't think I have. And I get some Cruz supporters are obnoxious and probably self-righteous. If you see that in me, I am sorry. But I think I didn't deserve any of the garbage that other Trumpsters have dealt me. If you have read thru this thread today and saw all of my posts, this is as far as I take it.

Believe it or not, I am trying to make some points through humor, even if they are not funny. They are never meant to hurt. DoughtyOne is a big boy and gives as good as he takes and I respect that...

And BTW, I use Trumpsters affectionately and I think I may have been the first on FR to use it...

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