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Why Donald Trump should not be taken seriously or included in the debates
Club for Growth ^ | 06/16/2015 | Doug Sachtleben

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at clubforgrowth.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; clubfortherich; donaldchump; donaldhump; donaldtrump; election2016; trump
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To: Labyrinthos
That is correct, but he has never filed for bankruptcy.

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.

141 posted on 06/16/2015 7:11:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: familyop

Income Taxes are to socialism as tariffs are to freedom.


142 posted on 06/16/2015 7:12:29 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Labyrinthos

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.


143 posted on 06/16/2015 7:13:18 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: muir_redwoods

The trolls are out already.


144 posted on 06/16/2015 7:14:42 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Husker8877

“peel-off conservatives”???

Conservatives don’t vote for Hillary. Trump is running in the Republican primaries.


145 posted on 06/16/2015 7:15:33 PM PDT by odawg
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To: GIdget2004

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.


146 posted on 06/16/2015 7:17:49 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Please support efforts in your state for an Article 5 convention.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

“Trump is left of Hillary”

You’ll need to explain that one. An assertion doesn’t prove itself.


147 posted on 06/16/2015 7:18:25 PM PDT by odawg
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To: RKBA Democrat

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.


148 posted on 06/16/2015 7:20:19 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: odawg
Can you name a president, or king, or prime minister, or dictator who did not?

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.

149 posted on 06/16/2015 7:21:58 PM PDT by KC Burke (Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam)
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To: ozarkgirl; FreeReign; familyop

Food for thought:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act


150 posted on 06/16/2015 7:23:36 PM PDT by VMI70
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To: KC Burke

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.


151 posted on 06/16/2015 7:24:05 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: posterchild

“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).


152 posted on 06/16/2015 7:25:35 PM PDT by odawg
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To: TexasFreeper2009

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.


153 posted on 06/16/2015 7:28:41 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: South40

“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.


154 posted on 06/16/2015 7:29:29 PM PDT by odawg
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To: South40

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.


155 posted on 06/16/2015 7:29:30 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Politics is downstream from culture." -- Andrew Breitbart)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

We’ll see how Sarah reacts. That will be telling. And important. Although I suspect she will bide her time on this one.


156 posted on 06/16/2015 7:30:09 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Dubya instituted a steel tarriff

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.

157 posted on 06/16/2015 7:30:20 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: VMI70

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.


158 posted on 06/16/2015 7:30:52 PM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Reagan was once the liberal head of a union, so you never know what the future holds.


159 posted on 06/16/2015 7:32:10 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: ozarkgirl

Smoot Hawley was a big nothing. Its effects were highly exaggerated.


160 posted on 06/16/2015 7:32:38 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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