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Great interview style. He let the Donald talk.
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GOPe were fooled by their own LSM talking heads. The problem with selling lies is they start believing it. They didn’t know who Trump was. They didn’t care. They only cared about their own political palaces. They didn’t see this meteor coming at them because Trump never cared to deny media their national enquirer sentiments before. Listen to Hugh Hewitt’s interview Aug 12 with Trump. Flick away the LSM lies. He’s the Gadsen Flag.
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Excellent interview. ~~SP
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Trump is sounding like the typical BS politician looking for votes.
One one side…
We need to cut taxes
We need to get our deficit under control.
On the other side…
We need to increase military spending.
We need to spend money on infrastructure.
Trump is spewing BS, you cannot do all things.
On China and Japan he likes to talk about how we owe them a trillion dollars. China did not issue that debt, the US government did. It just happens to be on the balance sheet of their central bank. If the government issued it, then we spent that money!
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I don’t remember him speaking of the deficit but of not creating more debt. Did he speak of cutting taxes or changing the tax system? That doesn’t necessarily mean less incoming taxes, but perhaps redistribution of the tax burden. He said simplify the tax code so it’s understandable for all.
Do you think this country will survive without military build up after Obama has decimated it?
What is the point of your remarks? Do you have a candidate in mind that could step in to save the day? Everyone complains that Donald doesn’t give particulars. I have heard more in what Trump has said than any of the others to give a plan to turn our country around.
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What is the point of your remarks? Do you have a candidate in mind that could step in to save the day?
The point is that Trump is living in a fantasy land or ignorant, or he is BSing you. And everyone is going to lap it up like a good doggies. He cannot deliver all things he talked about in the interview.
Like I have said on many occasions just build the damn wall.
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Trump cannot do ANYTHING with a public unwilling to accept serious changes in status quo. He says he CAN do things, not that they will get done, because he cannot merely force the citizens to do anything without agreement and cooperation. On his OWN, he absolutely could modify the tax system to encourage business and jobs growth…then he counts on businessmen and women to step in with the capitalism spirit to expand, create, and fund new business development. If no one trusts the changing climate, that is NOT a President’s fault…it lies with the people…if the folks continue to demand free money and stuff, and the rest of the folks do not support “NO MORE FREE STUFF”, then the President cannot fix it….BUT anyone can build a darn wall, and it can be paid for with bonds, local financing, or even special funding like we build the interstate highway system…nations all over the world build secure border gates…and anyone in our country who is NOT a citizens CAN be identified, isolated and tracked and managed, when the will to do it overcomes the political agenda NOT TO DO IT…..Trumps can BRING change, but the citizens HAVE TO ACCEPT THE DOG FOOD going forward.
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I noticed the same thing. I’m not sure if he really believes the orthodox economics he is spouting or if he is just preaching to the choir to calm some nerves.
On taxes it was most revealing that he said the US “has the highest taxes in the world.” Anyone familiar with Europe knows that in general this is just not true. What he must be talking about is the NOMINAL corporate tax rate, which is the announced tax rate, and at around 35% is indeed the highest in the world. The reality is that the EFFECTIVE corporate tax rate, the rate corporations actually pay, around 12%, is quite low. So by “simplifying” corporate taxes, Trump could lower the nominal rate and at the same time increase the effective rate if he were so inclined to do so. Personally I would have no problem with this if it were combined with an assault on “free” trade where tariffs forced corporations to reindustrialize America and tax breaks were given to those corporations who actually did build factories in the US.
His discussion of the deficit is standard boring politics as usual. Republicans will always whine about the deficit when Democrats are in power (and vice versa) but once either gets power they spend like crazy. The fact is Trump needs to make a distinction between the debt of a sovereign currency issuing nation like the US or Japan as opposed to debt a nation issues in a currency it cannot print (Greece, Zimbabwe, Argentina, California, Weimar Germany, etc.). A sovereign currency issuing nation can never be forced to default, after all it has a printing press! The US can at any time PRINT (or at least threaten to) its way out of debt.
Where I’m going with this is that I have always suspected that Trump is basically cribbing Marine Le Pen’s political program for the Front National in France. She has done a nice Right / Left maneuver by combining economic nationalism (anti-immigration, pro-protectionism) with Keynesian economics (soft money, government spending). As she recognizes, which is why she desperately wants to leave the Euro and get the French Franc back, is that within limits, a sovereign currency issuing government can spend beyond what it collects in taxes without issuing debt. The fact is when you pay your Federal income tax, the government does not take this money and put it into some sort of account – it simply destroys that money by debiting a private bank account. When a government spends, Treasury will debit its cash operating account at the central bank, and deposit this money into private bank accounts. There is not true link between taxes and spending as a balanced budget implies there is. Of course for non-sovereign currency issuing governments (US states, Eurozone “nations”, 3rd world countries that borrow in $) the balanced budget constraints are all too real.
What this means is that a sovereign currency issuing government is not required to issue debt to spend more money than it takes in by taxation. It may choose to issue bonds for other reasons though.
All this is anathema to traditional conservatives and their Wall Street supporters. and is also very hard to explain to extremely intelligent people, let alone to the average citizen. The way Marine Le Pen finesses all this is by calling for government “borrowing” at 0% interest from the Bank of France. Why pay interest on government debt to the big banks? In fact the supposedly right winger Le Pen’s program is extremely Keynesian, which is surprising when looked at from a Left/Right political framework. But from a Nationalist/Globalist point of view it makes a lot of sense.
With Quantitative Easing we see the Obama Administration more or less printing money but giving it directly to Wall Street. In this interview, is Donald Trump suggesting to keep printing money and to instead spend it directly on the military and infrastructure?
With exceptionally low interest rates, the US has plenty of room to print before inflation kicks in; so far all the QE printing has only created stock and commodity bubbles and not inflation.
On the other hand the reason we have such low inflation is that by definition, globalization is deflationary. When you take a $25 dollar and hour job from the US and replace it with a $5 dollar a day job in China, deflation is the only possible result. Or when a native born $25 an hour carpenter in California is replaced by a $8 Mexican, you would really not expect much inflation. As a President Trump erects an impenetrable wall of tariffs and the reindustrialization of America takes off, along with a Great Wall of America to keep illegals on the other side and working class wages start to climb as a result, inflation must increase. Which is all good from the US debt point of view, inflating away a debt is the traditional way of paying it off. But you can only do that if you control the currency the debt is issued in.
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You know your economics. The above commenter who said US debt is on the balance sheet of China’s central bank had it wrong– since we only borrow in dollars, our debt really just sit on our CB’s balance sheet. The Federal Reserve could buy it back at anytime with just a keystroke.
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“With exceptionally low interest rates, the US has plenty of room to print before inflation kicks in…” You haven’t been paying attention if you believe inflation hasn’t already kicked in. In fact, the cost of living has increased(it varies city by city) by over 10%/year for the past 4 or 5 years.
Inflation will continue to increase as long as the Federal government is printing money. It will begin to come down when we create wealth again. In the 80s when RR took over, inflation was over 14%-by the mid 80s, when our economy was growing at a 6-7% clip, inflation has come down to ~3-4%. And this was when inflation stats weren’t a bunch of government lies-seriously, you really believe inflation is 2%????
You think that printing fairy dust money is NBD yet we’re in a nightmare with the value of the dollar down over 95% since the past 100 years. What happens when we’re no longer the reserve currency? You don’t think our enemies are plotting to make this happen? Or maybe when it takes a wheel barrel full of Trillion dollar bills to buy a loaf of bread, this might become apparent to you?
Trump was short on specifics last night but the fact is he’s an outsider. You’ll see as he gains even more support the long knives will come out. What they did to McDaniel in MS will pale in comparison.
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The corporate tax rate for domestic capitalized, produced, and sold / consumed services and products should be ZERO. …… PERIOD, THE END.
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And then you have Rand Paul, who is suggesting a 14.5% flat income tax and a 14.5% VAT … I would like someone to explain to me how you can possibly create a so-called 14.5% VAT. That simply isn’t possible.
Rand Paul is an idiot. You think we have a messed up tax code now, just introduce a VAT … government tax corruption like you have never seen … just look at Europe.
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No inflation….Have you tried to buy food lately!!!
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Part of the problem is that with the Byzantine tax code, the multinational’s can afford the army of tax attorneys and accountants. The mom and pops, cannot. Even medium businesses struggle. Coupled with non-essential regulatory burdens we have a problem.
He’s alluded to my first point, iirc, in the recent Hannity interview.
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Yeah mom and pop corps cannot go to Washington and buy their tax break.
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Trump doesn’t need to crib Marine Le Pen. He is Wharton, not Le Pen.
You’re promoting kool ade and sound bites again.
Trying to compare tax rates across international countries is a fallacy because it’s apples and oranges. The tax structures are different. Even the top 10 listings of who gets higher taxes can’t agree. Sometimes, Zimbabwe is there, oftimes Belgium, occasionally Australia, Sweden……..they give no details on how these countries are ranked, and don’t include cost of living. The incomes in each country is converted to US$ but what does $87K mean? Is that above average or a median split of population for Belgium income earners? What is the basis for choosing say $87K income as a comparison across all countries?
Corporate rates are the highest yes presumably in the USA. If you say they are paying net only 12% taxes then why bother with 39% corporate rates? Just remove loopholes and charge the echelon rate of 15-25%.
Here is 2016 tax rates in the U.S. It’s fairly formidable at 45% for household income of $450K. I’m rounding off. That’s 45% per $225K spouse.
Then DO CONSIDER CORPORATE RATES for competitiveness.
In Ireland, it is said they are 10th in high personal taxes, but the corporate rate is 12.5%. Does 40% corporate rate sound competitive to you for the economy?
Is Trump actually incorrect when he states taxes in America are the highest? You haven’t proved him wrong. You provide no source links but base a strong accusation on sideways regurgitation of obsolete and unproven facts. I’ve checked out a number of links on my own and even they can’t agree on who’s highest.
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Further, just to put Sweden’s tax rate in context, according to a Swedish citizen,
Well, most of the facts about Sweden are correct. However, the statement “there are no taxes on residential property sales” is not correct. If you sell your house or apartment in Sweden, you pay a 22 % tax on the profit. Furhtermore, there is no tax on a persons fortune. Even if you are a billionaire, you don’t pay any tax on you fortune. Finally, the property tax is very, very low. It is dependent on the value of the property, but maximized to SEK 7 074 per year, which is corresponding to 800 dollars per year.
The US at one time also paid the HIGHEST EVER TAX RATE HEARD @ 90% AFTER THE WAR.
But, Trump is right, at the end of the day, it is corporate tax rates across the countries that are most meaningful and determine America’s economic competitiveness. America simply can’t compete against low corporate tax rate structures of 12% (before deductions) in other countries.
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It’s also a question of what you get for your taxes. Nominal higher tax rate in Europe generally includes funding of national health care, retirement care, disability, etc…
In the US all of these taxes are add ons in the form of fees, levys, surcharges etc…
take your base income rate add SS, Medicare, etc. Then the state wants a piece. Whats left is just the start of round 3. First property tax, you pay annually for the right to own something. Then sales tax. then we move onto use tax, surcharges on phones, gas, internet and many other things. Then we the circle jerk by clawing back certain deductions due to income.
If you take the time to add all these layers you will find in most US states have far higher real tax rates than socialized European states.
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Why is it always and either-or proposition? That’s the classic “guns or butter” argument. the fallacy of the excluded middle. What about guns and butter? You can cut taxes and spend more on certain projects if you are cutting spending on other projects.
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Pizza with a Diet Coke. Bertdilbert is right. Trump is pandering. That doesn’t exclude him for me. I’m all about “build the wall”, but Trump is pandering.
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It is typical republican talking points. What you would expect from someone running as a republican. Cake and eat it too.
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Some details glossed over quickly by the assumptions about tax rates,
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/08/14/mark-levin-interviews-donald-trump-radio-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-1569679
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See my comment above, thanks!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/08/14/mark-levin-interviews-donald-trump-radio-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-1569679
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I have not listened to the interview yet, but from what I have heard up to now, Trump is the only candidate laying out three necessities to bring this county back to something close to what the WWII generation left us.
Managed immigration.
A strong defense.
Jobs, Manufacturing.
If we are going to go in to debt as you rail, better we are indebted to ourselves as opposed to China.
It makes absolutely no sense (except to the global crony-capitalists, RINOS and bankers) to send dollars outside this country to buy all the things that pre-1979/80’s were once made here, so that foreign countries can use that money to build their roads, schools, bridges and militaty — and — loan the money back to us.
Nothing absolutely nothing employs more people over the broadest spectrum of skill sets then manufacturing — Nothing.
The GDP and ascention up the economic ladder of a nation of people working in the service sector, pales in comparison of what a manufacturing economy affords.
The tax revenue multiplier effect from manufacturing exponential.
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…the tax revenue multiplier effect from — is — exponential.
Lastly, one thing nobody talks about the loss of cheap labor of assimilated (citizens) as a result of 40 million babies.
I’m not talking about the cheap labor like people who are used, being payed $3 week or day in China, I’m taking about the entry-level English speaking labor segment there would of been if 40 million American babies weren’t aborted.
They would start out as cheap labor and ascend up the income scale, just as most of us did.
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Colt… please factor into your thinking the problems of babies born brain-damaged and addicted, slapped around by angry elder, and later shunted through schools that do not teach English, reading, writing, arithmetic, and require gang membership to avoid some of the beatings.
Not trying to be difficult or contrarian here, but I don’t think you understand the reality of schools in Baltimore, New York etc. I’ve seen those schools and their work close up, and what they deliver is important to your assumptions about the future of those babies you imagine.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/4-teachers-removed-school-teens-beat-girl-7-article-1.2163188
“4 teachers, students ‘removed’ from Queens school where 8th-graders beat up 7-year-old girl over refusal to fight other kids” by Ben Chapman , Caitlin Nolan , Corky Siemaszko; NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Thursday, March 26, 2015, 12:20 PM
Updated: Thursday, March 26, 2015, 11:58 PM
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“Nothing absolutely nothing employs more people over the broadest spectrum of skill sets then manufacturing — Nothing.”
Right, getting 93 million Americans back into decent jobs in the labor force will take care of the deficit.
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It may be BS, but it’s better BS than the rest. If any candidate is going to build the wall and kickstart immigration enforcement according to existing law (not illegal executive orders and regulations), it appears to be him. There is no politician or high-flying businessman/woman with whom I’d sleep in the same room without keeping one eye open. They are all snakes and sharks. Kind of have to be. The key is to have the right one, facing the right way, in the right circumstances. Wouldn’t we all love to see Trump go all Great White on the DC establishment? Will we see that? Probably not, but if we at least see a wall, significant improvement in immigration enforcement, and rollbacks of at least some of the BS lib regulatory bloat, that will be a great deal more than we’ll get with any other candidate I see on the horizon.
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I think large scale manufacturing as an employment multiplier is not a strategic option for the USA going forward. Industry is concentrating on technology and process automation with new materials to be able to make stuff 24/7 with no pause or employee issues except cleaning the floor and maintaining plant support utilities. We could best concentrate on major needed infrastructure to get labor jobs, while corporations build NEW plants to PRODUCE trade goods for export, as well as for domestic consumption. We have to compete with cost of goods here against low wage driven cost of goods manufactured abroad…the two components are labor and transportation of raw materials and finished products. We will not rebuild the rust belt jobs….technology is moving too fast to shrink people effort and the population of unskilled labor via immigrants is growing too fast to take care of unemployment in toto.
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FRAUD, waste, welfare, plus policing and benefits for non-citizens eat up a lot of our money.
Do we pay interest on all this debt?
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-pie-chart-from-hell-your-future.html
If so, we need to reduce debt and deficit spending.
We need to stop waste – putting billions into funding garbage such as studies of homosexual prostitutes in Rio, Swedish massages for rabbits, etc. More: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=outrageous+government+waste
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Thank you! Excellent chart! I was just commenting on this waste identified by Trump.
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Thanks a lot for that information. To add to it, that link you provided led me to this report which will make you see red.
http://fee.org/freeman/detail/most-outrageous-government-waste
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You also said trump was wrong about China manipulating their currency.
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If you cut out the ear marks and pork spending, there is a lot of money left to do great things. Did you not also hear Trump say it’s time other countries fund their own concerns? Cut out foreign aid and you save a lot right there. Right now government projects and dead wood is costing billions of $. How about Obama’s Obamacare website that cost millions. Trump said he could have built that with $100. We know what he means.
It’s also supply and demand. More people working brings in more income than trying to put the squeeze on small and medium size businesses. The more disposable income one has, the more likely one will spend to further boost the economy.
Paying interest on the debt is killing America too. Did you hear what Trump said there too? America is buying Made in China products which sends money to China, and still having to service the debt to China. He’s saying he’s going to work out a deal where if they are allowed to sell product here then America is already servicing the debt. This is just one example. I don’t hear these ideas coming from plodding Jeb, Walker, Carly, Cruz, nor other candidates. They haven’t got Trump’s gusto, power and smarts. They can try but they be fakes.
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One one side…
We need to cut taxes
We need to get our deficit under control.
On the other side…
We need to increase military spending.
We need to spend money on infrastructure.
Trump is spewing BS, you cannot do all things.
Right…….because it’s just not possible to cut other spending to offset those increases, or something.
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Have at it.
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if he’s for a flat tax, I’m against this guy. this simply means the Middle Class will pay for the brunt of the taxes since there are more of us. count me off the bandwagon. simplify the system??? his taxes are difficult because his accountant is looking for write offs and loopholes. I love that he’s not PC, but if he’s for a flat tax, he’s a big time scammer looking to get over on all of us working people.
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I think the proposal he threw out was both graduated and flat. The higher the income the higher the percentage. But everyone, no matter how small their income, would pay something. While not perfect, and it would need work, there are simply too many people who pay nada, who aren’t stakeholders in the country, and view the US Treasury and their fellow citizens as an ATM. We have to make living in this great country a privilege again. If you live here you pay something towards the common good. The tax code should not be a reward and/or punishment to various groups with clout. It should be fair and at least relatively simple. My CPA bill this year was $700 and I am no where near even well to do but the rules and threats from the current IRS setup is onerous and dangerously politicized. No one should pay more than is fair and no one should pay less.
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No, he said he is not for a flat tax.
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when people question him about that, he leads the interview back to talking about simplifying and eliminating loopholes and deductions. I have heard him do that in several interviews.
On the downside, I wish he would finish his sentences instead of interrupting himself with another thought.
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If you really want to get the “rich guys”, go after their wealth, not their income.
P.S.: Did you listen to the interview? He said that taxes need to be simplified and lowered. He didn’t specify a preference for how this was to be done.
To clarify, I’m not for going after the “rich guys”, just saying how that could be done if there was a will to do so.
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I’m all for going after the rich guys who are producing in China. those guys need to be taxed extra just like our Founders proposed. they either produce in US or pay a penalty or a tariff. even our founders called this our Second Declaration of Independence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_of_1789
either you want to be sovereign or you want to be part of some New World Order scheme.
today’s talking heads have convinced you that “freedom” is “free trade”, and keeping the government out. N0NE OF THIS BOOKAKE LINES UP WITH OUR CONSTITUTION!
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Why should someone who earns $100K pay a higher percentage of taxes than someone who earns $20K? What exactly is fair about that?
Are you looking at taxes as a way to fund the basic functions of government or are you looking at taxes as a way to bring about fairness?
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so that people’s basic level of necessities is covered, as I recall of Huey Long’s Louisiana set a certain rate say $20,000 before income taxes, same for housing say $50,000 before property taxes begin
need to stop doing the trade off between welfare benefits and working for a living (recall the article of Seattle $15 minimum meant the poor cut back hours or lose welfare)
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Real simple solution to that–no welfare, at all, for anyone. Completely unconstitutional. Completely unfair. People want/need charity, ask a charity. Want to be charitable? Donate to a charity. I know this won’t change anytime soon, but it’s one of the biggest, systemic problems in our nation, indeed hemisphere. It would take a week and many many pages of text and numbers to catalog all the evils we create and nourish by our welfare and gummint benefits systems.
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So you think that a person under a certain income level shouldn’t pay taxes? Is there a minimum income level that is immune to say Social Security and FICA?
My preference is a sales tax. Generally, the more you make, the more you spend. I believe EVERYONE needs to have skin in the game.
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The only Trump plan I have seen is this:
4 brackets; 1-5-10-15%; kill death tax & corporate tax
My 5-part tax plan involves reforming the income tax. The government confiscates way too much of your paycheck. The tax code is also a very complicated system that forces Americans to waste 6.1 billion hours a year trying to figure it out.
What does that tell you? It tells me that it’s time we restore simplicity & sanity to the income tax. Here’s my income tax plan:
•Up to $30,000, you pay 1%
•From $30,000 to $100,000, you pay 5%
•From $100,000 to $1 million, you pay 10%
•On $1 million or above, you pay 15%
It’s clear and fair. Best of all, it can be filled out on the back of a postcard and will save Americans big bucks on accountants and massive amounts of time wasted attempting to decipher the tax code.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Donald_Trump_Tax_Reform.htm
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He’s also saying reduce the size of bureaucracy, and I’m thinking, yeah, smaller IRS staffing and tyranny. It’s interesting that it’s the higher income brackets who support Democrats…think about that one 🙂
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This is what I’d like to see happen:
Follow Trump’s plan on trade with Mexico, Japan, China and others
Cut foreign aid
Slash and burn fat and pork from the US gubbermint
Pare down the gubbermint and the enormous salaries paid to useless workers
Cut back congressional travel and office expenses (if they want the job, let them pay their own expenses)
Implement Trump’s 1% – 5% – 10% -15% tax plan
Limit the number of children one female can collect welfare for
Institute 2 year term limits for Congress. This gives them less time to do damage and would consequently cut down on what they are willing to spend on campaigns, not to mention, less time to become ingratiated with the lobbyists.
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Trump tax plan
http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Donald_Trump_Tax_Reform.htm
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What does government officials do when they want to influence behavior? If they want more of a certain behavior, they lower taxes on it. If they want more of a certain behavior, they increase taxes on it. Why are we taxing income at all?
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good point
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I love that he’s not PC, but if he’s for a flat tax, he’s a big time scammer looking to get over on all of us working people.
So you think “working” people(whatever that is) shouldn’t have to pay your fair share? Is that you, Bernie?
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no he’s not. Here is a clip from Hannity this week. He talks about it more.
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and for China, they do think “How dumb are they?” I’ve brought it up multiple times that our Founders were protectionists. Our founders would laugh at the current Republican. our Constitution specifically stated for regulations against free trade. We were built by Protectionist policies since our inception. somehow, the current Republican picks and chooses. it’s the same with Democrats. they were the ones that started this free trade nonsense. Al Gore. I’m sick of the stupidity of both parties and the way the media has manipulated American’s thinking process.
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http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/article-i-section-8
China screws their workers, but we’re totally dependent on them for our products. China is also a Protectionist country just like our founders proposed. SMH
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They like trade deficits because the central bank buys US bonds and holds them. It gives them a ready buyer of US debt and they can spend more money without raising taxes. Debt on a CB balance sheet was only problematic when we were on a gold standard and could be converted to gold should our spending look shaky. There are no checks and balances any more to government spending.
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I really get a kick out of the poo poo this and that people they are so smart and know it all yet they keep voting for the same old anti-American folks and expect new results.
If they even vote.
GO TRUMP GO upset this rotten apple cart.
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Most of the commenters on this thread apparently either have not read or don’t understand CTH’s clearly stated basic reason for supporting Trump which has nothing to do with his tax plan or whether or not he’s pandering. Nothing at all.
And I’m not going to go and look up the link and post it again. Maybe someone else cares to – – -. Read back. Read up. Feel free to join us. Or….. maybe you’ll find out that you really don’t agree with us – at all.
People who jump on the bus two states into the journey and assume they know what its destination is will make comments based on that assumption – of course – but it’s difficult to have to keep on sifting the essential points in comments when the comments are filled with such assumptions.
Everyone’s welcome on the bus but be aware: this is not the choose-your-favorite-candidate-based-on-agreement-with- all-of-his-stated-policies-bus.
If that’s the bus you were looking for, ya might wanta get off this one.
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Cliff Note version:
GOP and DNC want to stay in control of Fed money and special interest protections and to keep cheap labor force.
GOP strategy is elect Bush.
DNC strategy is to elect Hilliary
Money boys don’t care, they are the same to them..But either of them is a DISASTER for the nation.
Trump is the only one that can beat both of them. If not, we get Bush or Hilliary.
Everything else going on is slinging poo to hit the other team.
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That’s right. Supporting Trump is a strategy to throw a ringer in the GOPe-Barbour scheme to split up delegates among the other candidates who will default to the front runner whom the GOPe are manipulating to be Jeb…but it’s not working out as they are planning because of Trump. Jeb is weak, in love with Mexico and quite frankly out of gas (or energy as Trump said)….and falling in the polls…too bad all that PAC money blown.
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National Review reporter accuses Coulter and Hannity of supporting Trump:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/08/13/national-review-reporter-confronts-coulter-hannity-on-support-for-trump-i-am-just-astonished/
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The National Review has become rabid in their dislike for Trump but even more so for the Trump supporters. So much so they’ve become unreadable. there is no reason for suck a lack of respect for average people voicing their concerns for America. I feel like we must start taking names for future references. i don’t forget a$$ wholes much.
Funny this is from The Blaze, Beck doesn’t like Trump either. (He’s on my list of names).
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“Conservatives”
lets get real, Trump is not the most conservative in the race, Trump is running as Main St vs Wall St, Productive Class vs Political Class, those ARE the twin evils that control the Government. Donald is creating a revolutionary war against them, in effect saying its “We The People”, not Party or Political Dynasties. We have to trust the judgement or mind set of the President to reason each set of issues that come up to be handled, Politicians decisions are bought and paid for by Wall St PAC money, period. Being a Billionaire removes the strings that control the puppet politicians. Everyone advocating Conservatives, mention Reagan, well Reagan approve Amnesty, and began as a Democrat in his foolish youth.
Abortion is an issue that the SC decided, so its just now a strategy of what are reasonable restrictions and Government funding. Trump is not getting behind a “no exclusion for rape, incest, and life of mother” campaign. The conservative base is more rural and agriculture based than Trump’s urban and industry sector, so he is able to get votes there where conservatives struggle, by addressing their concerns, and we know Trump “Cherishes Women” ………..
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Did someone say that Trump was the most conservative in the race?
If they did, I missed it.
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Mark Levin had to bring up the question to Trump if he is a Conservative, many folks are questioning Trump on his Democrat leanings and associations. Some voters have litmus tests and if the candidate fails in say “abortion”, then that excludes them. I saw one comment here that if Trump is for a “Flat Tax” it excludes him. My comment is, some folks are being “conservative penny wise, and pound foolish” by not seeing the bigger picture. Trump is the ONLY one right now that has the chance to defeat the Money Powers candidate Jeb Bush. I gave up on Scott Walker and Ted Cruz because of the electable street cred Trump brings. He comes with no strings attached when making tough decisions, and that input includes big city liberals views. Radical Liberals “hide” what they are really doing behind the scenes, I was laughing not that long ago that Obama wanted to give non violent illegal aliens low priority status so that ICE can focus on violent criminals, and then it is revealed ICE let loose violent offenders. Will some liberal come to Trump and explain why they need Sanctuary Cities? He|| no. Trump already addressed illegal aliens and they all ran for cover, because it is a policy that is against the will of the people.
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You gotta love the Trump. Totally pro American. He does have some ADHD going on though. Which is funny. Could listen all day.
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Well this non stop 24/7 info world we live in has made us all a little ADD so could be why he appeals to us. Also, Trump has fans among millenials, at least that’s what I’m seeing at work.
As far as the words coming out of any of these pols’ mouths, I take it with a grain of salt. I’m looking at their guts, and their willingness to stand up to the freaks on the Left. Sure, he might not deliver all the goods but he’s an American who loves America.
And look at Macy’s–bad second quarter. Don’t mess with the Trump, bad karma!
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I occasionally stomach a trip to HuffPo to see what the unhinged, unapologetic, bat-crazy leftist morons are spewing. What’s interesting is that in every article about Trump, the comments that receive the most “likes” are those that support Trump and what he’s doing to politics right now.
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also check the total amount of comments, on an average day it is rather low, lower than CTH
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some notes I took while listening to the interview. I can’t believe the other candidates are so lame that they cannot respond to this guy.
vets – care for those with service disabilities only
Does not say that vets get great care when within travel distance of VA hospital or clinic.
On VA he does not mention Obama – bashes Congress instead – republican Congress
he did not want to attack Saddam who was brutalizing his people but wants to attack ISIS.
How much more will he spend on US defense? Raise taxes to pay for it? I thought he complains
about the US being taken advantage of by other large nations of the world. Yet he will have
the US jump in, once again, to take up the burden of fighting Iran, Russia, China,
al Queda and ISIS?
Will he balance the budget – raise taxes if he has to? China manipulates its currency by
selling US Treasury notes it holds. If US did not have a deficit China would not have
Treasury notes to sell.
How to solve the problem of China taking our jobs? By bring manufacturing to the US? But
that would require unions to be defanged. But he criticizes Scott Walker for be too
divisive in Wisconsin by taking on public sector unions.
When we are bebuilding our infrastructure will unions be empowered to bid up the cost
of the projects? Why can China build new buildings in weeks when it takes years in the
US?
He says the world is ripping us off left and right. Yet he will have the US spend
hundreds of billions more to rebuild the military and then go and fight foreign wars
to make the world a safer place for China and others to continue extracting raw
materials and ripping us off.
Questions Levin does not ask:
– would he pressure Baltimore to drop charges against officers in Gray case?
– would he transfer ownership of federal land to the states? Dont forget Cliven Bundy.
– allow continued legal immigration into the US? From African and Muslim countries?
– search for and deport any person found to be in the US illegaly?
– halt the use of federal section 8 housing vouchers where people are moved from
violent communities into middle class communities? Just as people were given
federal housing aid to move to Ferguson from St. Louis in the last 20 years?
– now that the UN and other nations of the world have decided to lift sanctions
against Iran should the US continue with its sanctions? What does that accomplish
in terms of hurting Iran to force its compliance on nuke program and hostility
towards Israel?
– what did he mean by Scott Walker being divisive?
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Good points and questions.
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Very thoughtful post.
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“Cherishes Women”
yes, the Megyn Kelly and Fox News co-ordinated attack on Trump was orchestrated by Wall St to protect the candidates that they are funding, but the meme “War on Women” is an issue and having been thrown at Trump FIRST by Republican leaning media is BEST if he is the nominee. It steals the thunder of the issue from Democrats, and takes the wind out of their balloon, so that it is considered already addressed and settled. Hey, the Democrats are trying to nominate a FIRST ever woman President, just think, they are a majority of the electorate.
Trump would be wise to let the “Megyn Kelly issue” dissipate, which seems why she has taken a vacation, possibly on orders from higher up. Conservatives are right to express anger, the next question is, “what do you want to do about it”? You can now have an ongoing “War on Fox” which would be bad for Trump as the Republican nominee. Going 3rd Party would give us a Democrat President. So, the best option is: Trump won, Roger Ailes caved to Trump, he will get “Fair and Balance, they report, we decide”. We may not like it, but RINO’s have their place at the Republican table, Krauthammer and G Will will continue to do their bidding. If Conservatives want an electable leader, they need to get behind Trump in the fight for the Republican nomination. Everything seems to get taken over by the Money Powers, whose to say a 3rd Party wouldn’t be?
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Living in the NY Metro area we KNOW Donald Trump. He’s no Reagan. More a huckster without the ability to keep his big mouth under control. Seems some ‘talkers’ believe that the enemy of our enemy is our friend. Trump is a friend to no one but his own ego.
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The Primary vetting process is just beginning. There are many debates, interviews and articles ahead.
Updates and articles daily – https://www.conservativereview.com/2016-Presidential-Candidates
Debate schedule – http://www.2016presidentialdebateschedule.com/2016-debate-schedule/2016-republican-primary-debate-schedule/
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Trump is a friend to no one but his own ego.
I don’t want him for a friend.
If he is the tool that blows establishment politics out of the water (which he has already done to some extent just by showing up) then I will be content to see him as a useful tool.
Heaven knows the voters have been treated as useful tools long enough.
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Read his book
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Love Levin ! The Donald knows how to build things because he has done it before ! He has my vote and he will make Ted Cruz the Veep !
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No. Trump will choose a no nonsense woman governor like Mary Fallin of Oklahoma or Susana Martinez of New Mexico…or a man or woman with experience good in international affairs…depends upon where our country is next year this time . Keep Cruz in the Senate or nominate him for the Supreme Court where he really belongs.
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In regards to #BLM: ” I will be very careful, but we will be very stern.” Good answer….good answer.
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Cruz in 1988 sounds like Cruz 2015
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Only difference – Cruz 2015 has a lot more evidence backing his concerns.
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That’s Trump.
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I meant TRUMP – why did I write Cruz???
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Oh, lol! Whooo! 🙂
We are on the same wavelength, GeorgiaFl!
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Here is his interview with Hugh Hewitt which is very good too:
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The world operates via Uber Alpha Males. Obama is obviously a beta. It’s absurd to think that Pres. Grant, FDR weren’t ballbusters. Funny that Rahm Emmanuel isn’t criticized for his thuggish Alinsky tone. Alinsky was the worst on tone and obnoxiousness.
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I liked the way he said that we can’t be the world’s police–that we would provide backup but that we need to take care of ourselves first.
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The problem with Obama is not that he’s a beta it’s that he is intentionally destroying this country.
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Trump is a means to an end .A.necessary destination for this country.
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…and TRUMP has the MEANS to make it end too……
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“You need the tone…” – Trump Abso-d@mn-lutely.
What is the EPA doing with 17,000 employees.
The man would own the bully pulpit.
Donald understands that Petraeus was destroyed on purpose for political reasons.
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The Band
MANNISH BOY (WITH MUDDY WATERS)
Nov 25, 1976
Winterland (San Francisco, CA)
http://www.musicvault.com/the-band/video/mannish-boy-with-muddy-waters_1000027.html
Lyrics: http://www.metrolyrics.com/mannish-boy-lyrics-muddy-waters.html
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Sundance,
Do you have an email address? I would like to send you two things for your review: 1) a post that you can review and decide to put up or not, I’m not sure you do that; and 2) a short policy statement re what I can glean from Trump’s comments/past positions on healthcare – it’s the same as Reagan’s. I can explain in further detail but it literally could take what most view as his biggest weakness (single payer references) and make it into one of his biggest strengths. I am hopeful you can get it in front of somebody with the campaign to at least consider.
And may I just say, I have been obsessed about Trump since I was first alerted to this blog. I read your GOPe plan and it completely dawned on me that you were exactly right.
Cruz is my guy, but I have accepted that he just cannot win given what’s going on. And I don’t think he’s actually electable in the general until the country gets used to him. He’s PERFECT as a VP spot.
Your work here has been brilliant. You are literally a political genius. Way to call Carly. What’s astounding to me is that she has absolutely the worst record on Conservative Review and now she’s everybody’s darling. Yes she can outdebate Perry, Graham, and that crew and she can speak in complete sentences. Sigh, that’s why I was resigned to having Romney.
We don’t have to settle anymore! I made my first donation to Trump’s campaign and it felt great! Thanks
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email contact (info at upper right – this page) is TheLastRefuge@reagan.com
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Great, thanks much Sharon.
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Can’t believe I missed that, I just get in the habit of scrolling down right to the posts I guess!
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Cruz is young like Trump was back in 1988 speaking to Oprah when she asked if he would run for presidency. Trump may have been about 42 years old then. Look at the experience Trump has amalgamated since then. Cruz is the same. He has great potential but he’s hackneyed by lack of experience with the real world and establishment politics. Trump will show him the ropes. BUT Cruz has to be in it to win for America not himself. He chose to again, typical Cruz style, support Megyn the way he supported McConnell and Cochran by not taking a stand. Cruz doesn’t have a record on winning against establishment. He can be a real trophy on Obamacare for Trump.
Donate also to Sundance? Without SD we are lost without a compass too.
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Sundance and the Mods. The mods are tremendous too! I look for their remarks too in ongoing discussions. So well written and concise, insightful, often humorously or depressingly true and pointed.
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Agree. A lot of work goes into keeping this place up, and it is appreciated.
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Nice to see you here, prescient! We’re allowed to obsess all we want about you-know-who here 😉
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Make America Great Again Elect Donald Trump President 2016
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Make America Great Again Elect Donald Trump President 2016
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Make America Great Again Elect Donald Trump President 2016
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