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Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports
CNBC ^ | June 13th, 2024 | Emily Wilkins and Kevin Breuninger

Posted on 06/13/2024 5:39:20 PM PDT by shadowlands1960

Key Points

-Donald Trump discussed the idea of imposing an “all tariff policy” that would ultimately enable the U.S. to get rid of the income tax, sources told CNBC.
-He also talked about using tariffs to leverage negotiating power over bad actors, according to another source in the room.
- Trump championed tariffs during his first term in the White House.

Donald Trump on Thursday brought up the idea of imposing an “all tariff policy” that would ultimately enable the U.S. to get rid of the income tax, sources in a private meeting with the Republican presidential candidate told CNBC.

Trump, in the meeting with GOP lawmakers at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D.C., also talked about using tariffs to leverage negotiating power over bad actors, according to another source in the room.

The remarks show Trump, who championed tariffs as a foreign policy multi-tool during his first term in office, is considering a drastically more protectionist trade agenda if he defeats President Joe Biden in November.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 16thamendment; fakenews; frnaysayers; incometax; neverhappen; pipedream; priceincreases; repealthe16th; rumormongering; salestax; tariffs; tds; trump
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To: shadowlands1960

Now we’re talking.


81 posted on 06/13/2024 7:58:34 PM PDT by Prince Caspian
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To: dljordan

And the democrats when they get in next time would definitely implement the VAT. They want to already. But with the income tax gone, they’d definitely go with that. They’d start at 1 percent of course until it got to 30 or more percent.


82 posted on 06/13/2024 8:06:37 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: shadowlands1960

Whoooooo!!!

Brilliant 👏


83 posted on 06/13/2024 8:10:04 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: shadowlands1960

Excellent. Even a democrat will vote for him. This is the guy who “The America You Deserve” in 1998 or so.

Fix education.

Eliminate racial preferences in hiring, loans, and education.


84 posted on 06/13/2024 8:22:45 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: shadowlands1960
24 according to Google.. all of them tiny, like the Bahamas, UAR... also... most of them very wealthy.

No income tax, and very wealthy.

There's a lesson in there somewhere...

85 posted on 06/13/2024 8:27:36 PM PDT by null and void (“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up”. ~ Lily Tomlin)
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To: reasonisfaith

Prices will already be increasing if we deport the illegals who are working for very low wages, and tariffs would increase prices on imports. Aren’t most of the things you buy imported? How nice of you to want to pay more!


86 posted on 06/13/2024 8:30:14 PM PDT by Kathy in OC
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To: married21

Florida.

LOL!


87 posted on 06/13/2024 8:32:09 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: GizmosAndGadgets

Another tax break for the rich.


88 posted on 06/13/2024 8:43:37 PM PDT by Kathy in OC
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To: null and void

I think the lesson is that wealthy people go where they don’t have to pay tax on their income.


89 posted on 06/13/2024 8:45:37 PM PDT by Kathy in OC
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To: shadowlands1960

This type of reform is why the Establishment has TDS.


90 posted on 06/13/2024 8:57:17 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: shadowlands1960

So what’s his plan to cut government expenditures to make up for the lost tax revenue? Decades of governance by the tax-and-spend party and the borrow-and-spend party are how we have a $30+ trillion deficit today.


91 posted on 06/13/2024 8:58:17 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"-Voltaire)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

isn’t that what Herbert Hoover did? Smoot Hawley tariff vote in Congress caused the 1929 stock market crash, which led led to a global trade war and a series of bank failures tied to world trade?


92 posted on 06/13/2024 9:02:45 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: FormerFRLurker

There’s plenty of bloat.... time to slim down. Department of Education would be a great start... Energy.... pull out from leftist endowments like NPR... I’m sure we can find plenty to cut... As I mentioned above, best remedy would be cheap energy.


93 posted on 06/13/2024 9:04:47 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Don’t forget to gut the government. No taxes on tips? He’s after my heart but funny. Wasn’t it Reagan who taxed tips?

Yes, and no Rat since has reversed that policy. So much for the Rats being the party of the working man and woman.
94 posted on 06/13/2024 9:12:03 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Paul R.

It’s hard to claim Americans have a right to privacy if they have to fill out a tax return and reveal how much money the make and where they put it, etc! Hard to hire 87K IRS agents and claim you believe in privacy rights.


95 posted on 06/13/2024 9:14:08 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Paul R.

>> Schedule C

Been filing that for many decades, and a cakewalk compared to the Subchapter S requirements at least for NYS.


96 posted on 06/13/2024 9:43:59 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: Beowulf9

Dr. Franklin-He should suggest that AOC won’t have to steal from the tip jar.


97 posted on 06/13/2024 9:44:53 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: grey_whiskers

Californian here. Trump will win California when pigs fly; we’re surrounded by fruits and nuts. Same is true of New York, Oregon, Washington, Washington D.C., Hawaii, and a few other New England states. A lot of Rats love taxes and tyranny.


98 posted on 06/13/2024 9:52:52 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"-Voltaire)
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To: shadowlands1960

DO IT!


99 posted on 06/13/2024 9:57:47 PM PDT by karnage
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To: shadowlands1960; SunkenCiv

Before the 16th Amendment was passed, the US government was mainly paid for with tariffs. Can we go back to that? Or are we spending too much on things the government did not pay for in the past?


100 posted on 06/13/2024 11:55:37 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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