Posted on 08/13/2015 2:45:39 AM PDT by mazda77
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that he is against a flat tax and “people as they make more and more money can pay a higher percentage” in an interview broadcast on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.
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For a system that will put it’s boot on the neck of a hard working middle class person running their own business who inadvertently underpaid taxes in some way (and yes, I have personally seen this behavior at work) but that same system lets another person skate on their taxes who OWES millions of dollars in taxes but gets a polite pass because it is a politician, celebrity, or person of some correct race/gender/whatever of some sort...yes.
YES.
I believe (as you put it) “gaming the system” is completely, totally, and absolutely justified and fair and valid, because the gross injustice and unfairness of the administration of that system is so far in the other direction it boggles the mind.
If you are not breaking any laws, and exploiting “holes” they did not plug, then, yes. I support it completely.
I support wearing a bulletproof vest because it frustrates the people who might try to fill me full of holes, and the people who are trying to fill me full of holes think it is some kind of trick to wear a bulletproof vest. But there is no law saying I can’t.
Makes no difference that they would put a bullet in my face if it served their purposes, they are just angry that they can’t rub me out any damned way they please.
Our government has the power to raise taxes. The fact that an amendment to tax personal income is in place may be a good or bad thing (I agree with those who think it is a bad thing) but the government obviously can tax us.
And I don’t have a problem with taxes, anyone who is a citizen shouldn’t have a problem with taxes. We need taxes for various things that are necessary. We should probably have them more at the state and local government level than we do at the federal level, but we do need them in both places.
What we should have a problem with is excessive taxes, taxes without representation (where I think we are now) and unfair/unjust application of taxes.
If the bodies that enforce the taxes abuse that power unfairly, then we have the RIGHT to follow the tax laws TO THE ABSOLUTE LETTER.
If that means putting on a bulletproof vest that THEY manufactured (tax code with holes in it) I don’t have a problem with it. It isn’t “unfair” and it isn’t “dishonest”.
Yet and still the Trumpeters will fall in line behind this old grey mare, because he is entertaining and talks like he cares about something other than himself, he is as narcissistic obama himself, he has a left/right switch that is loose and wobbly he is trying to hold it right but when he lets go for just a moment it flops to the left.
What you see and hear is not what you will get...
Please cite your evidence which supports your assertion that most GOP voters are for a graduated income tax.
re>The democrat party Reagan left was NOTHING like the party it is now
True and the Republican party was NOTHING like the part we have today. However comparing Reagan and Trump is only as false as claiming he is not conservative.
I think I read somewhere that Trump has ADD or hyperactivity or something like that. Or it could be that his mind is spinning ahead before he answers the last question.
Ha ha—there’s George Will flogging the book, right on the cover. Of course, his wife works for the Walker campaign.
Will could not be more in the tank.
so as not to be shown to be a total hypocrite on Trump start reeling off how much more Conservative your boy Dubya Bush governed than what Trump is proposing now..
that ought to be a hoot.. you know like how Dubya and his party created a flat tax for the country, how he sealed the border(this ought to be good), cut off all government funds for Planned Parenthood and prevented the US from getting reamed on trade deals,
we’ll make it easy just start with issues like that.. we’ll all be waiting.. thanks
Successful alpha males are used to making quick decisions and moving on. They don’t hang around waiting for underlings to get to the point.
I agree with your sentiment, however, most people likely DO support it, because...they are ignorant of it, and don’t understand the unfair, destructive, and corrosive nature of a graduated income tax.
I would not be surprised if most voters “favored” it. They likely have no idea what it really means if they think about it.
I bet that if you sat them down, and explained it, personally and face to face, most would be against it.
It would not be long before the tax tax rate would have to be increased to pay the government.
All governors running for president do that. That’s their standard rationale for their candidacy.
Walker is total GOPe.
Off topic here but who advised him that that was a flattering photo. Whoever they are they should be fired.
On topic, what’s Walker’s plan in twenty words or less?
we are still waiting for you to post all of those Conservative policies your boy Bush proposed compared to Trump... hit the Jeopardy theme Don Pardo..
Walker was publicly advocating amnesty, citizenship and virtual open borders for illegals just two years ago.
Walker was looking for ways to burnish his state finances story from the second he was elected governor because, like most such pols, he was aiming for this presidential run.
Mitch Daniels, an uber-GOPe, I think it was, had done similar legislation in IN to nary a peep. Likewise, defunding illegals’ college tuition was another pionty-headed eyeshade kind of move to slightly improve WI’s numbers on his watch.
Defunding PP? A little local flavor for the flyover yokels.
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