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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You can... (since I don’t know where it came from :) )
It’s stolen goods all around!
Then why do you not go to the source and not the Lyin’ cruz spin master?
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/tax-reform
Trump, gasp shock, said we had enough laws.
What needs a ban now? What changed?
[Rudy II. FR had a purge over NY values in 2008...]
Much has changed since this time around the purge has been threatened against those not refusing to jump on board the Trump Train.
Whatever....
“Here’s how it works. The Congress proposes tax increases and the President signs off on them.
Now, if we have a Conservative Congress, they will look for spending cuts, not tax increases.
Trump has already indicated he’ll cut a few of the useless departments, ie EPA DOEd, etc.
This is just campaign talk.”
Yeah. All of it is “campaign talk”. He talks out of both sides of his mouth.
How do we know what he really believes?
There are no core principles here.
It does not work like that at all.
The president imposes penalties.
Then appoints supreme court justices that magically make these penalties into TAXES.
So primary taxation authority in post-republic America is the Supreme Court.
That is why discernment on the Supreme Court picks is CRITICAL.
The rich support the market for private jets, yachts, houses and high end girlfriends. Without the rich our economy will collapse.
May I suppose you want to also INCREASE SPENDING alongside your HIGHER TAXES plan?
Take your “hate the rich” rhetoric over to some Bernie Sanders Rally. You are in the wrong place here, pal.
And Bat Boy is actually Trump’s “Love Child”.
I understand that and I think Trump meant raising taxes on hedge funds - he didn’t clarify, but he has always said that. In other words - alternative incomes.
Nay, you do not see what is in plain sight!
He’s homing in on what the average American believes. Which is not what the average FR chesty thumper believes.
But it’s still a jolly sight better than what our “best politicians” are actually giving us.
The Cruzloyalists are fighting their losing battle to the very bitter end.....
“Would it be better if I said... “they’ll justify it because they are naïve enough to really believe King Trumpy is going to build a wall?”
ROTFLMAO!!!
It’s absolutely rich seeing a Deceptive Donnie supporter talk about being more politically correct.
I read your posts all the time, so I can confidentally call you a liar and a retard on this front.
[I’d bet you $100 bucks he legalizes the “good ones” without sending them back, without building the wall, and without billing Mexico a penny. ]
Never been a doubt in my mind. After all he attacked Romney in 2012 for supporting a policy of self deportation.
Strawmen on the brain huh?
I remember being taught that fallacy too.
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