Is Donald Trump Conservative? Here’s the Rundown

Breitbart ^ | January. 24,2016 | Ben Shaprio

[Hojczyk]

Tax Plan. Trump’s tax plan is certainly conservative. He proposes lowering the top tax bracket to 25 percent, drops the capital gains tax to 20 percent, dumps the death tax, and drops the corporate rate to 15 percent.

Our analysis finds that the plan would reduce federal revenues by $11.98 trillion over the next decade. However, it also would improve incentives to work and invest, which could increase gross domestic product (GDP) by 11 percent over the long term.

That’s different from his past positions on taxes, which include fighting the flat tax and proposing a wealth tax that would force owners to liquidate their property to pay taxes every year.

Trade. Trump is for international tariffs, including an extraordinarily heavy tariff on Chinese goods, in the mistaken belief that this somehow helps the American economy. Tariffs certainly benefit protected sectors, but they hurt American consumers and destroy American purchasing power. Trump also wants to leave mandatory union dues alone – or at least he hasn’t commented differently on the issue for several years.

Guns. Trump has become progressively more pro-Second Amendment over time. His website states: “The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.”

So, there you have it: Trump’s mixed record on conservatism, even at present, belies the notion that he sees eye-to-eye with the Tea Party. Actually, Trump is far more populist than conservative — which means he has appeal to blue-collar Democrats, but also that he may not reliably stand by conservative principles in office. In fact, given his repeated position switching, the safe bet is that anything he says today will changed based on convenience. That should not encourage any conservative thinking of Trump in the primaries.

[lodi90]

Goldman Sachs campaign donations: $100,000

Goldman Sachs did not donate to Ted Cruz’s campaign. But then you knew that already. Yet you still chose to lie about it. Again.

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Goldman Sachs employee donations. Don’t play dumb. You know how the beltway payola game is played. And last figure I saw put it over $120,000 for his Senate and POTUS campaigns.

[Pelham]

To be fair to Ben Shapiro he was born midway through the Reagan administration and so has no memory of it at all. The Presidents he grew up with were Clinton and Dubya. He’s a kiddy-con without enough life experience to be taken seriously.