Posted on 06/16/2015 5:22:09 PM PDT by GIdget2004
Donald Trump, in his own words…
Trump on Health Care “We must have universal healthcare,” Trump wrote in his book, “I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one.” In an interview earlier this year he continued to applaud single payer health care systems used in other countries.
Trump on Taxes “I would impose a one-time, 14.25% tax on individuals and trusts with a net worth over $10 million,” Trump said. “For individuals, net worth would be calculated minus the value of their principal residence. That would raise $5.7 trillion in new revenue, which we would use to pay off the entire national debt.”
Trump on Trade Trump has called for “a 20% tax for importing goods,” and a “Twenty-five percent tax on China, unless they behave.”
Trump on Eminent Domain When asked about the 2005 case Kelo v. City of New London, that allowed economic development to be a legitimate reason for government to exercise eminent domain, Trump told Fox News (7/19/05), “I happen to agree with it 100 percent.” Trump was unsuccessful in his own attempt to have officials in New Jersey use eminent domain to condemn a home on property he wanted to buy for part of his hotel and casino.
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I think that's kind of Clintonian. He filed for bankruptcy for four companies he was in sole charge of. It's on him, not anyone else. His irresponsibility, poor decisions, and bad business acumen.
Income Taxes are to socialism as tariffs are to freedom.
Agreed. But Trump has said and written so many left wing things that he is going to have to fend off alot of questionable comments of the past.
The trolls are out already.
“peel-off conservatives”???
Conservatives don’t vote for Hillary. Trump is running in the Republican primaries.
2 things I like about Trump. No one owns him. And he in not afraid to speak and shake things up. I think he will be good to shape the discussion but I don’t think he is a serious candidate. I think he is out there to make sure Bush doesn’t get it. He will garner support and use it to endorse someone else. I can’t see him turning his wealth over to a trust plus take a pay cut to be president. He will use his support to shape the agenda.
“Trump is left of Hillary”
You’ll need to explain that one. An assertion doesn’t prove itself.
There is no need for you to be privy to the plot to be an unwilling dupe of it.
You only need be a supporter of Trump or on his mailing list and he would suck you into HIS plan whether you realized it or not.
Most plots depend on unwitting dupes.
Monroe and Lincoln come to mind as executives that took very strong actions that were controversial but avoided others because they felt constrained by the office and their oath.
Tariff imposition after 70 years based upon executive decree? Surely we have a weak congress that will let such happen.
Dubya instituted a steel tarrif for a brief time which I applauded but he got so much pressure put on him that he took it off.
“I’m much more trusting of someone who chooses a position from principles rather than anecdotal side effects of a policy”
I had a friend who told me the exact same thing (about himself).
You mean like buying into the Republicans promise to repeal Obamacare or cut spending. LOL! We were all dupes on those.
Donald Trump is not trying to dupe anybody. He’s sick of the way things are and like many of us he has realized the politicians will never change anything. If they were going to they would already have done it.
“Being the clown that he obviously is,
Liberals like to use that description. Could you line out briefly how a “clown” could build up a $9 billion company There are many clowns, but few billionaires.
It’s odd. Trump’s past is so clearly liberal but lots of posters on the internet’s premier conservative forum look past it in ways they would never do for, say, Marco Rubio and are not doing for Ted Cruz on ONE issue.
We’ll see how Sarah reacts. That will be telling. And important. Although I suspect she will bide her time on this one.
More like, *steal* tariff, forcing American manufacturers who used steal as an input to pay higher-than-necessary prices -- costs that they passed on to us consumers and, of course, that made their products less competitive internationally.
Yes, food for thought and that was interesting but a couple other things to consider. It said the Hawley Tariff Act put record high tariffs on 20,000 items -”record high” tariffs apparently didn’t do us or the world any good (not that I care about the rest of the world, I’m more of a ‘good for America’ person, I would be a happy isolationist.
And the other thought was China makes us pay tariffs but we don’t make them pay tariffs - that’s not fair. I understand the reason is to make goods cheap for Americans but it’s not fair and puts us in a position of weakness allowing America to pay tariffs but not impose the same and equal tariffs on their goods coming here.
Reagan was once the liberal head of a union, so you never know what the future holds.
Smoot Hawley was a big nothing. Its effects were highly exaggerated.
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