Posted on 04/21/2016 2:08:04 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
GUTHRIE: Do you believe in raising taxes on the wealthy?
TRUMP: I do. I do – including myself. I do.
That was...this morning, in an interview that featured some other controversial statements. In fairness to Trump, he's been using the "raise taxes on rich people like me" line for months, embracing Obama-style class warfare tax gimmicks like the 'Buffet Rule.' But raising taxes on anyone, an outcome Trump just re-endorsed, is not what his formal policy agenda proposes. Just the opposite. As we've seen on issues such immigration, abortion and foreign policy, Trump routinely makes clear that he isn't familiar with his own positions. His stances aren't rooted in conviction, coherent ideological underpinnings or governing philosophy. They "evolve" and morph depending on how Trump is feeling in any given moment. Some professed conservatives may be perfectly comfortable voting for a tax-hiking, entitlement reform-opposing critic of Ronald Reagan's tax cuts. But many Republicans, including a 62 percent majority of GOP primary voters thus far, aren't eager to turn the keys of the party over to someone whose record and current statements build a strong case against the proposition that he's reliable conservative -- or much of a conservative at all. Parting thought: It's astonishing that this man appeals to people who loathe establishment "insider" types. Earlier in the answer above, longtime Democratic donor chuckles with multimillionaire celebrity newsman Matt Lauer about all the fancy parties they've attended together with hotshot bankers in New York. Man of the people.
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There is no conflict.
The last statement that Donald makes super-succeeds his prior statements, accounting for Venn Diagram overlaps.
Always.
The personal exemption phaseout begins to apply at the same income levels as the Pease rule. It affects your tax when you have adjusted gross income above a dollar amount that depends on your filing status: Married filing jointly: $300,000.
If FRee Republic is now an anti-Cruz forum for donation soliciting purposes, please cancel my monthly contribution.
Or, please delete the post to which I am replying.
One or the other.
Thank you,
Uncle Miltie
1999
Monthly Contributor
>> The last statement that Donald makes super-succeeds his prior statements, accounting for Venn Diagram overlaps.
The mooselime koran follows precisely the same principle.
There you go. Pointing out what has been right there for everyone to see for months.
Poor Teddy Bears. They keep hyperventilating over things because they refuse to see.
This looked like a bit of snark directed at both the leading candidates.
A tad too inflammatory for a solicitation post, IMO.
There’s enough bad vibes here to keep us for a long time.
Oh but the poor DO PAY for the mandates.
Windmills with 20% duty cycles right in Boston.
The Charles Town windmill. I used to joke to my liberal friends that they had a motor to turn that thing (they laughed ‘cause the thing hardly turns).
The poor just do without air conditioning in the summer in cities like Baltimore and Chicago.
Then they get mad...
Check this out Uncle...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3423412/posts?page=6#6
I tell ya - It takes balls to insult your candidate and then ask for money.
I know, I know. I mean you shouldn’t do it if you don’t have money to burn. This is liberals going after OPM, even the M of the genuinely poor.
musicman is strongly biased as you can guess :-)
I told Jim weeks ago that that kind of thing would be counter productive.
>> “Eff you Cruzers - You’re not welcome. But your money is.”
Just be thankful he’s not posting his depraved homoerotica. If I see that crap again, I may cancel my monthly contrib.
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Cancel away.....
From minutes ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3423412/posts?page=6#6
Or maybe this will turn into Trump Republic.
Trump: You Bet I Support Raising Taxes on the Rich
Trump: Transgenders Should ‘Use the Bathroom That They Feel Is Appropriate’
Poll: Trump winning big in California (Trump 41%, Cruz 23%, Kasich 21%)
Trump: I would change GOP platform on abortion
What the heck? I wanted Cruz to win fare and square not have
it handed to him on a silver duck. This capitulation crap has
gone far enough........
I’ve been wondering out loud for weeks now how the powers that be can reconcile their attacks on Cruzer, yet not see that donations are down.
What, did Ted Cruz actually pose this?
Yeah there is: Link
Really. Don’t any of Trump’s friends have duck tape?
So... in the current scheme the marginal rate is almost 40% for the “rich” but someone like Mitt Romney ends up paying an effectual 18% or something like that. Due to the loop holes.
If we don’t talk about the whole picture including loop holes then we can never sensibly describe its full effects.
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