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Why Donald Trump should not be taken seriously or included in the debates
Club for Growth ^ | 06/16/2015 | Doug Sachtleben

Posted on 06/16/2015 5:22:09 PM PDT by GIdget2004

Donald Trump, in his own words…

Trump on Health Care “We must have universal healthcare,” Trump wrote in his book, “I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one.” In an interview earlier this year he continued to applaud single payer health care systems used in other countries.

Trump on Taxes “I would impose a one-time, 14.25% tax on individuals and trusts with a net worth over $10 million,” Trump said. “For individuals, net worth would be calculated minus the value of their principal residence. That would raise $5.7 trillion in new revenue, which we would use to pay off the entire national debt.”

Trump on Trade Trump has called for “a 20% tax for importing goods,” and a “Twenty-five percent tax on China, unless they behave.”

Trump on Eminent Domain When asked about the 2005 case Kelo v. City of New London, that allowed economic development to be a legitimate reason for government to exercise eminent domain, Trump told Fox News (7/19/05), “I happen to agree with it 100 percent.” Trump was unsuccessful in his own attempt to have officials in New Jersey use eminent domain to condemn a home on property he wanted to buy for part of his hotel and casino.

(Excerpt) Read more at clubforgrowth.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; clubfortherich; donaldchump; donaldhump; donaldtrump; election2016; trump
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1 posted on 06/16/2015 5:22:09 PM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

Sorry...I shortened the title and didn’t make that clear.


2 posted on 06/16/2015 5:22:48 PM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

I suspect the obvious; that Trump is simply a stalking horse for Christie


3 posted on 06/16/2015 5:27:03 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: GIdget2004
Trump on Taxes “I would impose a one-time, 14.25% tax on individuals and trusts with a net worth over $10 million,”

No. A "one time" tax would become an annual tax, and the result would be the very rich fleeing the country or restructuring their assets to avoid the tax. The result would be breaking up small businesses between $10M and $50M, big enough to have to pay the tax but too small to survive or dodge the tax. The result would be more productive people going Galt, and leaving no one behind who knows how to create jobs.

4 posted on 06/16/2015 5:27:05 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: GIdget2004

trump is against communist core, wants to build a fence, have mfg return to USA, is for strong military, jobs and infrastructure, no to chamber of commies trade deal etc etc


5 posted on 06/16/2015 5:27:18 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: muir_redwoods

Trump is the modern day Perot.


6 posted on 06/16/2015 5:29:27 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: GIdget2004

Can anyone say that Obama/Hillary is better?


7 posted on 06/16/2015 5:30:10 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: biggredd1

yeah....yeah ...yeah...you idiot...


8 posted on 06/16/2015 5:30:19 PM PDT by bkepley
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To: GIdget2004

Don't look at what he says now when he wants your vote. Look at his history.

1) “I probably identify more as Democrat.” —Interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, March 2004

2) “I’ve been around for a long time. And it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans.” —Interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, March 2004

3) “Nancy — you’re the best. Congrats. Donald.” —Handwritten note to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, January 2007

4) “Bush is probably the worst president in the history of the United States.” —Interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, March 2007

5) “I’m totally pro-choice.” —Interview with Fox News Sunday, October 1999

6) “I want to see the abortion issue removed from politics. I believe it is a personal decision that should be left to the women and their doctors.” —Remarks to reporters, December 1999

7) “I’m very liberal when it comes to health care. I believe in universal health care.” —Interview with CNN’s Larry King, October 1999.

8) “The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans… We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan.” —Writing in his book, The America We Deserve, January 2000

9) “By imposing a one-time 14.25 percent net-worth tax on the richest individuals and trusts, we can put America on sound financial footing for the next century.” —Writing in his book, The America We Deserve, January 2000

10) “I think he [Obama] has a chance to go down as a great president.” —Interview with NY1, November 2008

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Trump’s donation history shows Democratic favoritism

He has given money to what looks like a Republican enemies list, including Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Charles Rangel, Charles Schumer, Edward Kennedy, the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee of New York. He donated $10,400 to Harry Reid, including for his 2010 battle with Sharron Angle, the GOP nominee and tea party favorite. He has also been pro abortion. You're free to call all this what you'd like. I call it liberal.

9 posted on 06/16/2015 5:31:10 PM PDT by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
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To: GIdget2004
Trump must be doing something right if the Club for Growth wants to keep him out of the debates.
10 posted on 06/16/2015 5:31:22 PM PDT by grania
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To: GIdget2004
I note that the pundits seem to have a list of Republicans who "don't deserve" to be in the debates.

I get the feeling that the plan is for Jeb to be on stage alone, kind of mumbling to himself in Spanish while the media pretends to swoon and say Hillary is surely in trouble now.

11 posted on 06/16/2015 5:31:47 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
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To: Fungi

No, he is not. Perot was a third party candidate. Trump is a Republican.


12 posted on 06/16/2015 5:31:49 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: GIdget2004

Why not? Putin would exclude him from the debates, just as the two socialist political parties here or the old Soviet Union would do the same.


13 posted on 06/16/2015 5:31:59 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Pollster1

You are right - he is just talking the talk and it means nothing in the long run. How many times has he declared bankruptcy? And he wants to run the country???


14 posted on 06/16/2015 5:32:01 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: GIdget2004

I don’t know, he might liven up the Democrat debates. Oh? He’s running as a Conservative? What a laugh.


15 posted on 06/16/2015 5:32:04 PM PDT by Ingtar (Capitulation is the enemy of Liberty, or so the recent past has shown.)
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To: GIdget2004

I say let him in...Trump brings some fire to the otherwise dull campaign.


16 posted on 06/16/2015 5:32:10 PM PDT by rrrod (Just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
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To: bkepley

yeah, yeah, dorky.


17 posted on 06/16/2015 5:33:43 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: freepertoo
Trump is a Republican.

You spelled RINO wrong.

18 posted on 06/16/2015 5:34:10 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Fungi
That is my greatest fear.

I am afraid he is in it to make sure he has enough cred to go independent to deny the POTUS to a real conservative. Or another Bush.

Can't blame him for the other Bush.

19 posted on 06/16/2015 5:34:42 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Fungi

We are doomed.


20 posted on 06/16/2015 5:34:54 PM PDT by Klemper
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