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Trump Just Attacked Scott Walker For Being Too Conservative
The Daily Wire ^ | March 31, 2016 | Aaron Bandler

Posted on 03/31/2016 2:40:50 PM PDT by DrewsDad

Real estate mogul Donald Trump continues to reveal his true leftist colors, smearing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) for being too conservative.

After Walker endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Trump unleashed a barrage of leftist talking points against Walker.

"There’s a $2.2 billion deficit and the schools were going begging and everything was going begging because he didn’t want to raise taxes ’cause he was going to run for president," Trump said. "So instead of raising taxes, he cut back on schools, he cut back on highways, he cut back on a lot of things."

Townhall's Guy Benson points out that Trump had previously leveled this smear towards Walker in September, even though The Washington Post, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org – all of which are leftist fact-checkers – all discredited the attack. Wisconsin had a projected $2.2 billion deficit at one point in 2014, but there was never an actual deficit since state law requires the budget to be balanced, which is what Walker did. Radio host Charlie Sykes confronted Trump on his lie, and Trump put the onus on Time Magazine, even though the magazine got the number from Trump himself.

But what's even more disturbing is that Trump's criticism of Walker suggests that Trump's first instinct is to raise taxes to balance the budget rather than conservative spending, which used to be a cardinal sin in Republican primaries. It's also bad economics, as economist Thomas Sowell explains:

In 1920, when the top tax rate was 73 percent, for people making over $100,000 a year, the federal government collected just over $700 million in income taxes-- and 30 percent of that was paid by people making over $100,000. After a series of tax cuts brought the top rate down to 24 percent, the federal government collected more than a billion dollars in income tax revenue-- and people making over $100,000 a year now paid 65 percent of the taxes.

How could that be? The answer is simple: People behave differently when tax rates are high as compared to when they are low. With low tax rates, they take their money out of tax shelters and put it to work in the economy, benefitting themselves, the economy and government, which collects more money in taxes because incomes rise.

High tax rates which very few people are actually paying, because of tax shelters, do not bring in as much revenue as lower tax rates that people are paying. It was much the same story after tax cuts during the Kennedy administration, the Reagan administration and the Bush Administration.

With conservatives growing increasingly distrustful of Trump, this smear against Walker will only continue to drive a wedge between Trump and conservatives going forward.



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 1stcanadiansenator; cruz; cruzcorkerbill; cruzh1b; cruzsoccerball; cruztpa; globalistcruz; moosebitsister; noteligiblecruz; openboarderscruz; scottwalker; scottwalkerpimp; trump; unipartyposter; wi2016; wisconsin
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To: DrewsDad
“He’s a nice man,” Trump added about Walker, but then noted, “I gave him a lot of money” when he was fighting to be elected in Wisconsin.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/29/crowd-boos-when-donald-trump-mentions-scott-walker-paul-ryan-in-janesville-wisconsin/
21 posted on 03/31/2016 2:53:03 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
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To: DrewsDad
Those of us who has known this pathological, inveterate lying con man most of our lies are not fooled.

This is such a repeat of 2008, when we had another narcissistic empty suit tickling the ears of fools. He told them what they wanted to hear. He became everything and anything they wanted to imagine he was. He will part the seas, give everyone free housing, college, phones, food. He was the greatest, the smartest, the bravest, the toughest.

HE'S THE MESSIAH!

22 posted on 03/31/2016 2:53:18 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: goodwithagun

There is no such thing as “true conservative.” The word has lost all meaning, just as the term “racist” has. Everyone thinks they are the most conservative - even Jeb Bush, who, by the way - has endorsed Ted Cruz. Some p;eople are so pathetic.


23 posted on 03/31/2016 2:53:20 PM PDT by Catsrus (I callz 'em as I seez 'em)
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To: DrewsDad

24 posted on 03/31/2016 2:53:50 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: DrewsDad

Trump has committed on paper to a tax proposal that will save people more money than Cruz’s tax proposal.


25 posted on 03/31/2016 2:54:04 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: DrewsDad

Trump is misunderstood. He’s just saying, ‘“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”


26 posted on 03/31/2016 2:55:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: DrewsDad

Thus states another Cruz org that btw just hired that pantheon of Trump objectivity and the ever excruciatingly hot Miss Fields partner in crime...

Ben Shapiro

Groovy


27 posted on 03/31/2016 2:56:40 PM PDT by wardaddy (is Cruz last name a coincidence or a blessing or is he the anti Christ)
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To: T. P. Pole

“To be honest with you, I haven’t a clue how a true conservative supports him in the first place.”

Our Republic is lying in the gutter bleeding from the aorta.

Trump is the only one who even admits this, much less promises to stop the bleeding.

When a patient has arterial bleeding, that’s the first thing you address. The patient may also have hepatitis, bad breath, and the heartbreak of psoriasis, but all that means nothing if you don’t get the arterial bleeding under control.

We must first save our republic; then we can take on the less immediate problems.

That is how a thinking conservative can support Trump. Only he will keep our republic alive, because only he is more concerned with that than with his own career and wealth.


28 posted on 03/31/2016 2:56:43 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: DoughtyOne
doughie one!!!

The offical Trump Turd Polisher for Free Republic. Man the last two days have been rough for you.

Normally Trump drops nice hard ones easy to spin and polish. But these last 2 days between Trump blasting conservativism, not knowing what the judiciary actually does (which is funny because he sues so much, but I digress) and his giving Hillary a woody when he talked about prosecuting women who have abortions...

How do you polish these soft, steamy piles???

29 posted on 03/31/2016 2:56:45 PM PDT by fatez (Ya, well, you know, that's just your opinion man...)
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To: Mozilla

Does being an anti-Trump site invalidate their point? Or are we supposed to be for tax increases now?


30 posted on 03/31/2016 2:57:00 PM PDT by Reaper19
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To: DrewsDad

There are many ways to attack deficits


31 posted on 03/31/2016 2:58:16 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: DrewsDad

“Wisconsin has lost 15,000 jobs to Mexico since NAFTA,” Trump charged about the North American Free Trade Agreement. “Kasich…he voted for NAFTA.”

“Both of them want TPP,” Trump said, referencing Kasich and Walker, who both support President Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. “That will make NAFTA look like a baby.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3416143/posts


32 posted on 03/31/2016 2:58:27 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
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To: goodwithagun

“liberals will quickly start referring to him and his policies as conservative. That will be the end of true conservatism.”

Why do we allow them such power? Why don’t we do something about it?


33 posted on 03/31/2016 2:59:38 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Catsrus

Sure there is. Just go to FR’s homepage and read JimRob’s purpose for the site. It’s actually a pretty simple concept. As for Jeb, he can call himself whatever he likes, but it’s not conservative. I also don’t give a rip sho he endorses.


34 posted on 03/31/2016 3:00:06 PM PDT by goodwithagun (March 3, 2016: The date FReepers justified the "goodness" of Planned Parenthood.)
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To: DrewsDad

Why isn’t Trump running on democrat ticket?

He is full of lies like the others and just blames Bush et al.


35 posted on 03/31/2016 3:00:06 PM PDT by ADSUM
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To: DrewsDad

Those who are great with Division often fail Math.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3C3JFHagzA&index=11&list=PLrLQft_Pxo13aYCbKtjDqMpadQ2Gdr6IB


36 posted on 03/31/2016 3:00:18 PM PDT by soycd
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To: DrewsDad

That’s okay. Look, I take the over and over again with a grain of salt. Take care.


37 posted on 03/31/2016 3:01:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: DrewsDad
States do a lot of hinky stuff with their budgets. It's REALLY hard to sort out who's telling the truth on these things.

I did a "thing" for about a year and a half on state budget numbers. One of the things that makes it hard to understand is that states HAVE to balance their budgets, by law.

They can't just write rubber checks, like the federal government.

Both the Democrat & Republican parties in the states thus get "creative" with the numbers and the spin.

38 posted on 03/31/2016 3:01:16 PM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: DrewsDad

Let me ask all you “pure” conservatives something.
You like driving on interstate highways?
You want our military to have the finest equipment?
You want our police to be properly armed and trained?

If not for taxes, who’s going to pay for the above?
Yes, there is lots of waste in the government. But there are some things the private sector cannot, or should not, administer or run.


39 posted on 03/31/2016 3:01:20 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: fatez

“The offical Trump Turd Polisher for Free Republic.”

Yes, those Trump supporters are certainly vulgar and abusive. Just like the Cruz supporters are constantly saying.


40 posted on 03/31/2016 3:02:12 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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