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Buttigieg takes on Trump, pitches four new tax hikes in Fox News Town Hall
Fox News ^ | May 19, 2019 | Gregg Re

Posted on 05/19/2019 6:46:59 PM PDT by Innovative

Insurgent Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg acknowledged at the Fox News town hall in Claremont, New Hampshire Sunday evening that he needs to do more to appeal to "black and brown" voters, even as he confidently parried a series of policy questions -- and, on several occasions, went directly after President Trump.

Buttigieg argued that minority voters are "skeptical of people who seem to come out of nowhere," after moderator Chris Wallace noted that he was polling at one-percent support among nonwhite primary voters according to a recent Fox News poll.

On fiscal policy, Buttigieg pushed for four distinct tax hikes when asked about the deficit, saying he favored a "fairer, which means higher" marginal income tax, a "reasonable" wealth tax "or something like that," a financial transactions tax, and closing "corporate tax loopholes."

"You don't blow a hole in the budget with an unnecessary and unaffordable tax cut for the very wealthiest," Buttigieg told Wallace, referring to President Trump's tax legislation.

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This is why it is good afterall, that Fox News had him on, so people can hear it directly from him that he wants to raise taxes.
1 posted on 05/19/2019 6:46:59 PM PDT by Innovative
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...appeal to "black and brown" voters...

Isn't Horizontal Harris one of those? How about Hussein?

2 posted on 05/19/2019 6:49:53 PM PDT by Libloather (Global warming is AWESOME!)
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To: Innovative

Still as unpalatable to voters as back when Mondale said it in 1984.


3 posted on 05/19/2019 6:51:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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ButtGiggittyGiggityGoo’s Dad was a proud Commie UND Prof.

He’s a gun grabbing Venezuelan Utopiaist.


4 posted on 05/19/2019 6:53:00 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Innovative

Cue homo techno music and multi-colored drinks with plastic umbrellas in them.


5 posted on 05/19/2019 6:53:52 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Isn't it funny that the very people who scream "My body, my choice" wants a say in your healthcare?)
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To: Innovative

FOX News and Wallace are now preaching to Democrats not Conservatives.


6 posted on 05/19/2019 6:54:42 PM PDT by maggief
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Yo rump ridden...

Please give an example of one of those corporate tax loopholes.


7 posted on 05/19/2019 6:55:44 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist.h)
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OK,so Buttplug would carry states like New York and California by wide margins and lose the same “Blue Wall” states that ILLary lost...and by even wider margins.


8 posted on 05/19/2019 6:56:22 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Comey,Brennan and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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9 posted on 05/19/2019 7:02:19 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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BootyJudge describes the mutual sodomy he conducts with his boyfriend as “love.” No, just sex perversion from two sick souls.


10 posted on 05/19/2019 7:05:13 PM PDT by nickedknack
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Sorry, Butt-a-bang, but there was no Trump tax cut for “very wealthiest,” you clueless fool.

There SHOULD have been such a tax cut.

The top 1%, i.e., the people who create most of the jobs, earn 19% of the country’s income but are paying 38% of the federal income taxes....they are paying twice their “fair share.”


11 posted on 05/19/2019 7:05:14 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (President Trump is right! The media IS the enemy of the people!)
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"You don't blow a hole in the budget with an unnecessary and unaffordable tax cut for the very wealthiest," Buttigieg told Wallace
That explains why President Trump's tax reform act didn't do that.

12 posted on 05/19/2019 7:05:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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13 posted on 05/19/2019 7:07:11 PM PDT by caww
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What would this clown know about tax policy? He’s mayor of a town of 102,000 and no experience other than that.


14 posted on 05/19/2019 7:10:23 PM PDT by boycott
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He worked on the Obama and Kerry campaigns - that made him an expert


15 posted on 05/19/2019 7:14:21 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Libloather

Black & brown voters, as he calls them, do not take kindly to those who engage in same sex relationships. He has a tough, if not impossible, row to hoe.


16 posted on 05/19/2019 7:14:23 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation; Innovative; Mariner; SkyPilot; Rome2000

Just yesterday I learned that one of the most onerous tax increases of 2017’s alleged “tax cut” was levied against non-profit organizations’ endowments, which the IRS classifies as “unrelated income”

Prior to the 2017 bill the rate was 15%

After the 2017 bill the rate became 21%

6/15 x 100 = a FORTY PERCENT tax increase.

Thank you, William “Bedsheets” Byrd and your d@mn “revenue neutrality.”


17 posted on 05/19/2019 7:15:50 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: Innovative

The dems are doubling down on tax hikes - Mondale style.


18 posted on 05/19/2019 7:17:15 PM PDT by plain talk
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“Buttigieg takes on Trump, pitches four new tax hikes”

Well....that will show him.


19 posted on 05/19/2019 7:17:29 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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I read that this ButtPlug guy wants to destroy all remnants of Thomas Jefferson in our history and culture because he owned slaves.

Destroy statues, rename buildings and public places, etc. He wants to remove any evidence that he was one of our Founding Fathers and a former two-term president of the US.

Jefferson was also the author of the Declaration of Independence, a vice president under John Adams, a Secretary of State, a minister to France, a Virginia governor and congressman.

If there's one thing I hate, it's a history revisionist. What gives him the right?

We can't change history so leave it alone.

20 posted on 05/19/2019 7:18:43 PM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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