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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Trump knows he isn’t going to build a wall. Every he says it and they cheer, he’s thinking “Wow, these idiots will believe ANYTHING!”
No surprise there.
“Why do you Cruz haters refuse to acknowledge the fact the VAT would REPLACE, not SUPPLEMENT the current 39.8% corporate rate?”
I care about immigration, that’s it. But you and I both know that the single greatest source of graft and special interest lobbying is over the tax code. Congress will not give up that power, no matter how corrupting it is. What they WOULD do is add a VAT for a small reduction in income tax rates - and then we’d end up with both.
Things have not yet gotten bad enough for corruption in congress to be fixed. I seriously doubt Cruz is up to the task of tackling congressional corruption as I see him as a beneficiary of it, but that is just my personal opinion.
Of course the current system is being tinkered with. That question was so foolish that I honestly did not think you expected an answer. The better question to ask is what makes you think giving politicians a new item to tinker with on top of what they already have is a good idea? I think it is beyond stupid to do so. This VAT is on top of income tax also as businesses do not pay tax, their customers do. I saw Germany’s VAT have regular increases while I was there and people did not complain about it as much as they would an income tax increase. I think it was because the tax is kind of hidden, if you are not paying attention, you just see prices go up a little bit. Cruz’s plan will never happen even if he did get elected, which he most likely will not.
Wow!
If Teddy only had a mind-reader like you he could have beat Trump... seeing that you can clearly read Donald Trump’s mind strategy, implications, and true meaning and to do so remotely without ever having met the man personally.
You should ask Ted for a job, oh wait, you’re already working for Hillary right?
Cruzs vat tax is on businesses and replaces what is currently there. It’s not a new added tax. It’s the same tax Raul Paul wanted.
If only Rudy had become president in 08
>>Trump knows he isn’t going to build a wall.<<
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You are doubly omniscient? You not only make a prediction that goes against many millions of voters, as well as a solemn pledge of the GOP front runner, but also claim to know what’s in Trump’s mind?
Pretty amazing. Do you know who’s going to win the next super bowl?
Trump is ‘waving goodbye’ each day as his true feelings emerge.
Only a few very persistent, very annoying trumpers on this thread are even trying to defend him.
I didn’t really understand your post but you are not saying that Trump is NOT part of the 1% I hope.
The trumpers have put down their torches and pitchforks a little this morning.
Celebrated a little too much last night.
That’s why we have to be cautious.
Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before a fall.
We extrapolate from what Trump has done in the past in order to predict what he will do in the future.
That’s all we can do because everybody promises and Trump promises the most.
Trump has been corrupt in his business dealings. There are a hundred examples and Hillary has a thousand in her little black box.
He has been immoral in his personal life. He has bragged about serial adultery and sleeping with the wives of other men.
He is an inveterate bully and loves to sue people.
There is nothing in his history that makes me trust him.
He will not build a wall. And he WILL let illegals back in.
It’s in his genes.
That is true. It was a kick in the gut for me to discover.
I have learned that many times and too my sorrow.
Thanks for reminding me.
xxxx
>>And do you think of it as Right vs. Wrong?<<
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I question the right of the majority to force their views and lifestyle choices on a minority that is not harming them.
As for letting trannies choose their restroom? I am against that; but, as I indicated before, I do not think anyone, even Trump, can turn back the clock on this cultural recognition of LGBT “rights.”
I understand that this may be a defining issue for you; and I respect that. For me, there are many issues that are far more important. (National sovereignty, jobs, corporate taxes, borders, globalism, global warming hoax to name a few.)
Yep... I agree.
“I am not a fan of Trump’s tax plan. It is still too progressive for my taste. It still allows way too many people a free ride.”
I agree with you on both points. Even if his plan is as you have explained it, I’m not a big fan of increasing capital gains at any level. I also am not happy with 50% people getting “a free ride”. As one other freeper mentioned here, they should all have to pay something, even it starts at 1%.
I also take more stock on what Trump speaks, then what his tax plan says. He said he wants to tax the “rich”. I take at his word on that. He may be referring to what you have explained, but as he has on many issues, his words drift way further into liberal speak than I care to hear.
Furthermore, I think you and other Trump supporters have taken an overly simplistic, misleading euphemism to describe Cruz’s tax plan by saying he favors a VAT. The VAT, as you term it, is actually a flat 16% business tax that is supposed to replace payroll taxes. Please explain to me how exactly that increases the costs of goods and services, because I don’t see it.
>>They’ll justify it because they are stupid enough to really believe King Trumpy is going to build a wall, make mexico pay for it, and deport illegals (before he lets the good ones come back okay).... oh and ban the muslim religion in this country.
Who says you have to be a democrat to be gullible...?
I am a very conservative Christian who supports DJT, and I am NOT gullible or unintelligent.
Is there no end to this bashing of Mr. Trump and Freepers who support him? I thought the owner of this site made it very clear that these kinds of overtly negative comments were not welcome. Did he change his mind?
BTW, comments designed to tear down Mr. Trump DO NOT MAKE CRUZ into a genuine Christian conservative. He is still the Great Pretender, hoodwinking some and paying others to do the Establishment’s bidding.
The whole world’s Elites maketh war against Donald J. Trump. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out WHY. After Reagan slipped through, they will NEVER permit a non-establishment candidate to enter the running, EVER AGAIN. That makes ALL the other candidates Establishment-approved.
DJT enrages them because they never envisioned anyone who was previously part of the game turning and exposing them.
Their tactics include trying to get people hung up on various issues enough to dissuade them from supporting DJT. “Stop him by any means possible”, is their motto. They want to keep making money off of drug-running backdoor “arrangements” as well as other endeavors.
Do I agree with DJT on everything? Of course not. He’s not God. But God IS using him to expose the very corruptness that conservatives rail against.
There is no one more corrupt than Trump. No one that I know of. He's bought every politician he can think of. Local politicans so he can get special deals for his casinos. National candidates. Liberals. He's a casino owner con man. He had an affair with one of the young models that worked for his modeling agency and eventually divorced his wife and married the model. For starters.... His favorite verse in the bible is "an eye for an eye". What does that tell you? Seriously?
IF God is using King Trumpy.... it is in the same way he used Kkng Nebuchadnezzar to destroy Israel.
If you want to vote for King Trumpy just because you want to destroy the republican party.... then that's the deal. If you want to vote for God's man, Trump is not him. I don't know for sure who that might be.... but it isn't Donald Trump.
>>There is nothing in his history that makes me trust him.<<
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Understood. For me, however, I recognize in Trump the normal attributes of a wildly successful CEO (and I have known a number of them). These people are almost always a bit predatory, a bit taken with themselves . . . pragmatic to a fault, even perhaps a bit underhanded for most people’s tastes.
This is what I think the country needs badly right now.
I love it that Trump is a great businessman but not CEO of a globalist corporation. He is (mostly) self-made billionaire who is NOT PRIMARILY an investor. He has employed tens of thousands and hung out at countless construction sites.
You can trust such a person totally in the context of a deal, meaning, if they say they will do something they will do it.
OTHERWISE, NO. No great businessman can be trusted in the same sense as most of us would like to believe. They basically believe that Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand will make every act virtuous at the end of the day, if it is profitable.
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