Posted on 07/05/2017 1:37:47 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Here’s this Wall Street Journal story: “Could Trump Really Be Draining the Swamp?” This is five days ago now. The subheadline is: “The water appears to be receding in key Beltway bureaucracies.” “The Senate still hasn’t voted on Obamacare reform, U.S. workers are still waiting for tax cuts to…” Oh. That’s another story. I don’t know if I’m gonna have a chance to get into it today, but you’ve heard that Bannon has leaked that he wants Trump to go the for tax increases on the rich. You’ve not heard that? Yeah.
This came out yesterday, the day before, that Bannon is trying to get Trump to go middle class, lower income tax cut big time, but at the same time a huge tax increase on the 1%, people making 485 grand or more a year. Bannon said he wants to see a tax rate that’s got a four in it. The current top marginal rate’s 39.6. He wants a rate of 42, 43, for people above $485,000 a year.
Now, the reason for it is apparently Bannon believes that Trump’s base and others, that a majority of Trump support comes from populist nationalists and — this is key — that populists, as opposed to conservatives or liberals, populists and nationalists are very open to class warfare. Let me putt this this way. Bannon apparently believes that the majority of you who support Trump would also support really soaking the rich, that you have that in common with liberalism, class warfare aspects.
The story I saw, Bannon hasn’t been quoted, so, again, it’s in the media, could be all wet. But there were two stories on this I saw, and one of them said that Bannon firmly believes that to broaden Trump’s base, to steal support from Democrats and independents, that there must be a proposal to raising taxes on the rich, because it is a policy that a vast majority of Americans support whether they’re conservative, liberal, independent, moderates, you name it. And that Trump could go a long way to really damaging the Democrat coalition by peeling off a number of Democrat voters who really relish the idea of raising taxes on the rich.
And so he’s trying to get Trump to do it. There is no indication what Trump thinks about it. Probably a trial balloon that was floated out. The thing that got me about it was, you know, aside from the wrong-headed policy is the belief that this is how you broaden your base. If you’re Trump and your base is populists, nationalists as opposed to conservatives and liberals, that you can really, really own ’em if you support tax increases on the rich.
Now, my gut tells me that a majority of Trump supporters are ambivalent about that, and I don’t think, when you balance that against the rest of Trump’s agenda, they could take it or leave it. I don’t know how many of Trump’s supporters are these rabid soak-the-rich people, as apparently some people and their definition of populism would indicate. My sense, my feeling, my advanced thought process on this is that most Trump supporters are not pedal-to-the-metal raise taxes on the rich, that it’s not one of the things Trump could do that could really cement people’s support for him.
I think they support Trump whatever he does with the top 1% tax bracket or tax rate on the top 1%. I could be wrong about it. I don’t recall at any time during the campaign where the Trump campaign one time talked about raising taxes on the rich. Maybe it happened and I missed it, but what I took away from the campaign was that Trump was for tax cuts across the board for the stimulus of the economy that would occur. Keep more money in the economy, keep more money in the private sector, the economy grows and expands and more people get hired. I just don’t recall Trump standing for or proposing a tax increase. Maybe he did. I don’t recall.
Now I’m starting to recall. I’ve got vague memories. Anyway, it’s out there and again I don’t know whether it’s just trial balloon or whether they’re serious about it. But the point of the Wall Street Journal story is the Senate still hasn’t voted on Obamacare reform, workers are still waiting for tax cuts, and Trump’s trading insults with the media.
By the way, did you notice how quickly Joe Scarborough and crazy Mika vanished from the front pages? Did you notice that? Huh. Well, anyway, Mr. Freeman here at the Wall Street Journal is writing that despite none of these things having happened yet, they’re in the hopper, but they haven’t happened, Trump appears to be making progress in what might have seemed the most difficult job given to him by voters, and that’s reducing the power of Washington’s permanent bureaucracy or the administrative state.
“Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wasn’t exactly dying to move to Washington to run a federal department, but he seems to have warmed to the task. Max Bergmann, a former Obama Administration official now at the leftist Center for American Progress, writes in Politico that the ‘deconstruction of the State Department is well underway.’ Discounting for the usual Beltway hyperbole, this probably isn’t as good as it sounds.”
But apparently Rex Tillerson is beginning to clean house over there. And a couple of other federal bureaucracies people are leaving; their overall size is being reduced. It’s not dramatic in big numbers, but it’s starting to happen. This has not happened in previous administrations. And the Journal asks in this story, “Could Trump Really Be Draining The Swamp?” Folks, I think some of this chaos is by design. It is a distraction. It’s designed to get the media paying attention to themselves or looking elsewhere while Trump does things that they would abhor and despise.
I don’t think Trump is the neophyte Washington player that everybody makes him out to be. I don’t think Trump is bumbling around, stumbling into corners and chairs and footstools and stuff not knowing what he’s doing. I think he’s smarter than all of these other people put together, and it’s fascinating because they think he’s such an idiot, a bumbling fool, and that they are running rings around him. It’s kind of an interesting juxtaposition.>
He’s draining the swamp and the media.
Now there’s a headline that matched the story.
We just read a story here earlier today about how female soldiers are being told too bad if a man comes to shower with them so long as he says he is a woman. How’s that draining the swamp? I have seen not one indicator that Trump is a social conservative, instead it seems his Soros loving daughter and son in law are making social policy.
Exactly what he did in his business. He'd announce he was going to build a 100-story hotel in Manhattan, with no intention to, then while all the hubbub was going on, he'd solidify plans for his true intent, a fifty story building.
What happen when you try to kill a pig....It screams like a stuck pig.. and fight for its life with a bunch of thrashing and attacking and gnashing of teeth
The fact that they are kicking and screaming and fighting for their life tells me Trump is doing the job no politician has been willing to do before
we got what we beg for...for years...And it was silly to think they were just go ing to go away and sulk while we dismantled the lefts “Evil Empire” inside America
Will they ever learn, it’s never about draining anyone, at the end of the day it’s only about controlling how much “ALL” ASPECTS OF GOVERNMENT SPEND!
Tax the rich! Yes, Trump should tax the rich. Democrats have been claiming to do it for the past 80 years yet their rich donor class keeps piling on the wealth. So Trump should write a nice targeted tax increase on the rich. Then he can immediately set about exempting the “right” wealthy people.
1. Start taxing all NGO’s on their accumulated wealth.
2. Add an extra NGO income tax on the CEOs for the ones making a rich salary (above 100K).
Uh oh!!!
>We just read a story here earlier today about how female soldiers are being told too bad if a man comes to shower with them so long as he says he is a woman. How’s that draining the swamp? I have seen not one indicator that Trump is a social conservative, instead it seems his Soros loving daughter and son in law are making social policy.
If it gets women to quit the military, I’m good with it. Women have no business in the military.
We just read a story here earlier today...We?
Running off at the mouth with obvious fake news. Where are the links or at least quotes?
Ignorance is bliss.
I’ve long said a lot of the fake news is generated by team Trump to distract us while they are doing other things. Just what those other things are, I’m not sure.
“If it gets women to quit the military, I’m good with it. Women have no business in the military.”
Aw c’mon don’t say that. There surely are some things women can do well in the military, like filing, cleaning, dusting, answering the phone, bringing the guys coffee.....right?
Even more Click-Bait.
Hey Rush, all this “Bannon wants to soak the rich” business sounds pretty fake. Nameless sources, rumors, apparently this, apparently that? That sounds like the fake news.
Trump isn’t going to raise any tax rates. Now, he may take away some deductions that cause some wealthy people to pay more, but that is different, and consistant with what he campaigned on.
I’m not sure what Rush is trying to instigate here, but niether Trump nor Bannon are soak the rich types, and Rush knows that. Rush also knows this business of Trump supporters being populists rather than conservatives is part of the whole #never Trump meme.
Trump supporters want to drain the swamp - that means send hundreds of thousands of lobbyists and bureaucrats home - the result? Smaller government. Smaller government combined with border security and a beefed up military? It doesn’t get much more conservative than that.
Trump’s platform wound up being staunchly conservative and so far he hasn’t backed down. When it comes to being conservative, he’s giving Ronald Reagan a run for his money. And keep on mind Reagan’s detractors on both sides of the aisle used to call him a populist and a great communicator - niether were meant as compliments - the implication was he doesn’t have worthy principles and convictions or a solid policy - he’s just good at saying clever things that somehow make him popular.
They were wrong about Reagan then and they are wrong about Trump now.
I know, a lot of what Rush says is a compliment - Trump is smart, Trump plays 3D chess, Trump is draining the swamp, Trump is a master at using tweets to marginalize the MSM.
But I think it’s high time Rush and some others uttered the words “Trump is a conservative”.
And while they’re at it, why not utter the words “Ivanka and Jared Kushner are not impacting Trump’s agenda one way or another.”
You may want to research women in the military during WWI and WWII.
It is so easy to fire up the Libs and the Leftist media. They go bonkers, in an angry frenzy, they focus on their own hurt little feelings and how they’re not “respected” and sucked up to. Meanwhile, the slight of hand is moving somewhere else. Like the streetcorner three cup find the pea scammer. ‘Don’t look over there. Read my tweets, you fake news nitwits.’
I hope this “tax the rich” talk is fake news, The worst fat cats of all are politicians themselves. The less loot those lying scumbags get the better it is for all of us.
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Here you go smarta$$. If you arent aware of what is posted here, its your own fault. And I have never been a Never Trumper, so you are wrong on all accounts, as usual.
I’m a retired Army Officer and agree that women have no business in combat arms but serve well in support units.
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