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Donald Trump: Hey let’s tax the wealthy!
Hotair ^ | 09/28/2015 | Taylor Millard

Posted on 09/28/2015 7:43:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/28/2015 7:43:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I think we will see it’s a graduated tax with fewer loopholes and lower percentages, perhaps coupled with a national sales tax of some sort.


2 posted on 09/28/2015 7:46:07 AM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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Conservatives should consider someone other than a blowhard, limousine liberal.


3 posted on 09/28/2015 7:49:02 AM PDT by Stepan12 (Our present appeasementof Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Republicans are now all about better ways to fund runaway government rather than cutting government.


4 posted on 09/28/2015 7:49:39 AM PDT by all the best
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They couldn’t wait a couple of measly hours to see the plan itself? Rather take a few last moments to spread out some healthy speculation? One thing if the release is a month away. But an hour?


5 posted on 09/28/2015 7:50:22 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: SeekAndFind

Lower income people have not paid income taxes for a long time, they get money that they didn’t pay in through earned income tax and child tax credits (programs wrought with fraud).


6 posted on 09/28/2015 7:50:53 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: SeekAndFind

If Trump can get the jobs back like he intends to do, the Treasury will see a huge increase from income tax from the new jobs. At the same time outflows for safety net programs will drop.

If he raises Tariffs in response to trade deficits, the treasury will see a huge increase from the tariffs. I don’t think raising tariffs is his first choice, negotiating fair trade agreements are. But he will use tariffs to force fair trade if an agreement can’t be reached.


7 posted on 09/28/2015 7:52:17 AM PDT by DannyTN
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If Trump can get the jobs back like he intends to do, the Treasury will see a huge increase from income tax from the new jobs. At the same time outflows for safety net programs will drop.

If he raises Tariffs in response to trade deficits, the treasury will see a huge increase from the tariffs. I don’t think raising tariffs is his first choice, negotiating fair trade agreements are. But he will use tariffs to force fair trade if an agreement can’t be reached.


8 posted on 09/28/2015 7:52:17 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: SeekAndFind

Jeb Bush’s tax plan is probably “we’ll take all your sh!t and redistribute it because of your ‘privilege’.”

Most likely his first issuance of his plan in specificity will be in Spanish before an Hispanic audience. IF that ever happens.


9 posted on 09/28/2015 7:53:07 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind

So he doesn’t want the poor to have the opportunity to invest in America?


10 posted on 09/28/2015 7:53:15 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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I would love it if he would eliminate the Earned Income Tax. We’re just giving money away under a different pot of money.


11 posted on 09/28/2015 7:53:52 AM PDT by Kenny
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“It’s so amusing how he says, “we’re not raising taxes” after saying he was going to raise taxes on some of the very wealthy.”

Trump was obviously referring to the overall, cumulative effect of his tax plan when he said “we’re not raising taxes”. And anyone, except this writer, would realize that the increase on taxes on hedge fund people is symbolic.


12 posted on 09/28/2015 7:56:08 AM PDT by odawg
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He is saying all the right things that we want to hear (and have heard before only to be betrayed) but what about the things we don't want to hear? Higher taxes? Obamacare? Gun control? Abortion? Pin this stuff down now before it is too late. Do not elect anyone who has not been totally vetted before the election. After the election is too late! I don't want to have to pass something in order to read it.
13 posted on 09/28/2015 7:56:18 AM PDT by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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He’s looking to tax hedge funds managers who many here will agree can be crooks.


14 posted on 09/28/2015 7:57:05 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Looks like Hotair has its Anti Trump soldiers on this site.

I heard the interview... did you? This is pretty much the Jack Kemp plan... and we took in a lot of money under that.


15 posted on 09/28/2015 7:58:35 AM PDT by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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To: SeekAndFind

Interesting how Rush will spin this of if he jumps off the Trump train.


16 posted on 09/28/2015 7:59:34 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: mmichaels1970

“They couldn’t wait a couple of measly hours to see the plan itself? Rather take a few last moments to spread out some healthy speculation? One thing if the release is a month away. But an hour?

Exactly what I’m thinking. What I’ve heard so far from his interviews and speeches, it sounds fairly decent. But I’ll wait till I see the whole thing before forming a solid opinion.

I see no sense in the media jumping on this, wait a few hours and see what it actually says. THEN tell me what you think...


17 posted on 09/28/2015 7:59:57 AM PDT by Paleo Pete (I'm with the bomb squad. If you see me running, CATCH UP!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tax the wealthy left, I say....


18 posted on 09/28/2015 8:00:20 AM PDT by Thorliveshere
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Liberals are the least giving to charity of any group. That’s why they want taxes. They are too greedy to care for others without a gun to their heads.

Trump is sending a shot across the bow of the donor class. Bush has 100 million+ war chest from these guys. Trump is saying, “Stop writing checks or you’ll be on my hit list.”

That’s what’s really going on here.


19 posted on 09/28/2015 8:02:24 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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I think we will see it’s a graduated tax with fewer loopholes and lower percentages, perhaps coupled with a national sales tax of some sort.

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Exactly. Simplifying the tax system is something that smart Conservatives have been advocating. It will mean less government and a smaller drain on the economy.


20 posted on 09/28/2015 8:03:03 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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