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Trump:‘One Of The Greatest Honors I’ve Ever Had In My Life, Everyone That Attacks Me Goes Down To 0'
The Daily Caller ^ | 08/24/2015 | Steve Guest

Posted on 08/24/2015 8:27:18 AM PDT by nhwingut

Donald Trump ridiculed Rick Perry and Lindsay Graham for attacking him saying, “It’s one of the greatest honors I’ve ever had in my life, everyone that attacks me goes down to 0.”

Trump, appearing on “Fox & Friends” Monday, said that, “you know the amazing thing, everybody that’s attacked me, you look at Perry, you look at this guy Lindsay Graham, I mean vicious attacks, they all went down to zero and now they are getting out of the race.”

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To: nikos1121
Megyn Kelly too is nothing special. Her replacement is wonderful.

I pulled the plug on cable over a year ago. Who is replacing Megyn?

41 posted on 08/24/2015 12:44:58 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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To: MayflowerMadam; chimera
“Didn’t Trump have a graduated plan where everyone paid something, but the percentages jumped up with income?”

Yes; he still does. At least that’s what he said this morning on Fox. I don’t like that. Flat tax; everybody pays something — an equal percentage.


See post 40.

42 posted on 08/24/2015 12:48:16 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

Everyone should contribute a share to society.....and yes determined by income.


43 posted on 08/24/2015 12:50:44 PM PDT by caww
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To: Tammy8

There’s a padded rocking chair waiting for Perry in Haskell, but he refuses to acquiesce.


44 posted on 08/24/2015 12:54:16 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Albion Wilde

$100,000 is peanuts money. It is middle class money.

My ultra rich means yearly income of over $1,000,000.
And net worth in excess of $25,000,000.


45 posted on 08/24/2015 1:06:22 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump is incorruptible. He is the only one who can run a campaign without rich donors.)
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To: entropy12

How does your exposition of your personal wealth standard advance this discussion of the gift of compound interest to the rich? I’m stumped.


46 posted on 08/24/2015 1:11:22 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

Some gal temporary while she’s on vacation...


47 posted on 08/24/2015 1:12:46 PM PDT by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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To: Albion Wilde

Do not get me wrong. I would prefer 0.0% income tax. And a consumption tax to pay military and minimum necessary government.

But we have that humongous debt hanging like sword of Damocles on our heads. Middle class is tapped out. Lower class has no money. Someone has to pay the piper. Only the super rich can pay higher taxes without real pain. It is the most conservative fiscal solution.

The caveat is, the higher tax on super rich must have a sunset clause. It must not give professional politicians money for ever to waste.


48 posted on 08/24/2015 1:12:50 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump is incorruptible. He is the only one who can run a campaign without rich donors.)
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To: Albion Wilde

“The ultra rich should pay more, not as a punishment, but to help the middle class.”

I don’t agree. There are better ways for the ultra rich to help the middle class than throwing money at the government to dole if out. Two ways, off the top of my head:

1. Do what they do now, i.e., create jobs for the middle and lower income classes so they can rise to a higher “class”.

2. Be an example of what possibilities exist for everyone if they work hard, make good choices in life, stay motivated, etc.

Why should those who’ve made great sacrifices in life, work 16 hours a day, and achieved wealth hand it out to people who prefer to work their eight hours and then plop on the sofa and watch TV ‘til bedtime? It’s OK if they want to live lives as couch potatoes, but it’s their choice. Successful people shouldn’t pay the penalty for other people’s choices.


49 posted on 08/24/2015 1:17:30 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Albion Wilde

Please read my post #48.


50 posted on 08/24/2015 1:18:22 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump is incorruptible. He is the only one who can run a campaign without rich donors.)
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To: entropy12
we have that humongous debt hanging like sword of Damocles on our heads. Middle class is tapped out. Lower class has no money. Someone has to pay the piper. Only the super rich can pay higher taxes without real pain. It is the most conservative fiscal solution. The caveat is, the higher tax on super rich must have a sunset clause. It must not give professional politicians money for ever to waste.

Well thought out.

51 posted on 08/24/2015 1:19:47 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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To: nikos1121
I mean, in short, he’s no Obama, who has given us transparency and specifics.

I wouldn't call Trump a Marxist like Obama. I'd call him more a liberal crony capitalist like his friend and receiver of his financial support, Hillary Clinton.

52 posted on 08/24/2015 1:20:31 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Donald Trump: Quality Conservatism Since 2015.")
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To: MayflowerMadam
“The ultra rich should pay more, not as a punishment, but to help the middle class.”


I don’t agree.

Neither do I. I didn't say that. FReeper entropy12 said that.

53 posted on 08/24/2015 1:22:34 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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To: MayflowerMadam

No one can create many jobs until the debt situation is under control. That national debt is not just a piece of paper. We, the tax payers pay interest every year on that debt. It is an anchor on the economy.

That money which goes to pay interest every year, should eventually go to small businesses in form of tax cuts. That method is impossible right now, because we are running very large deficits every year. Borrowing more from foreign countries to give tax cuts will make the situation worse.

Just examine how Greece got into the mess they are in. It did not happen suddenly. It was a gradual process over several years of more borrowing and more spending.


54 posted on 08/24/2015 1:24:06 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump is incorruptible. He is the only one who can run a campaign without rich donors.)
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To: Albion Wilde

I know. I know the quote wasn’t yours. Sorry it came across wrong. I was just using entrop12’s to make a statement.


55 posted on 08/24/2015 5:03:45 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Hey...warm yourself some milk...take a Benadryl...and sleep like a baby...with your C-Pap machine..wake up tomorrow...with your Irish Cream coffee...and your usual morning thingys...cash your security check...and send half of it to Jeb...etc etc. You Trump bashers here crack me up...You really make me laugh...


56 posted on 08/24/2015 6:43:43 PM PDT by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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