Donald Trump: Tax the Rich More

CNN ^ | Aug. 28, 2015 | Heather Long

[DoughtyOne]

Keep it in the back of your mind and see if it plays out that way. It may. It may not.

Hunches are fun to follow through and see if you’re right.

Keep your prediction post bookmarked, and tell us what a sage you were months from now when you reveal that you predicted it.

= :^)

[CatherineofAragon]

"Yes, but did you hear Trump’s sister ate a baby?"

I didn't.

However, I did read that Trump said his pro partial-birth abortion sister, who is a judge, would make a great Supreme Court Justice.

I also sat and watched Freepers justify it. I even watched one of them defend the woman's record and say you had to take the entire thing into account...not just the fact that she advocated driving scissors into the skulls of infants.

[free_life]

;-)

[Maelstorm]

I absolutely support taxing hedge fund types more. Most are some of the biggest liberals anyway. I want to see lower corporate taxes which is one of the biggest barriers to US job creation. I also wouldn’t be opposed to giving 100% tax deductions to US corporations for expenses of training and educating developing US citizens in the workforce over using H1B1s etc.

That said my perfect tax system would be a simple flat but I’m not going to let perfect to be the enemy of better. At least we can have a system that serves the interests of US citizens verses the internationalist corporatist cabal.

[skippyjonjones]

Trump gave his older sister a compliment. Full stop. You are flailing. New Reuters poll out. Spoiler alert. Trump 33. Huckabee 12. Sleepy Ted in 8th at 3.6%. When is he going to drop out?

[Brilliant]

Eliminate the municipal bond interest exclusion.

[GOPJ]

Trump wants to tax the hedge fund guys... trust me - that’s RICH...

What dems to is they say they’re going to tax the rich but it’s always the middle class... because democrats are liars.

[Republican Wildcat]

Trump is on record numerous time throughout the years for raising taxes on the rich. My prediction, normally good FReepers who are enamored by this Svengali will attack me for bringing this to light, say I support Jeb, call me a n00b, and not care at all that Trump is a wealth redistributionist.

Well, no doubt...look at the numbers who now support funding for Planned Parenthood after Trump said that he would fund the "good things" they do...and starting using Planned Parenthood's own spin that the "abortion part" wouldn't be funded under Trump, which is the current alleged policy.

[Republican Wildcat]

Well yes...thanks for the "message" you sent in the past two elections by sitting it out - your message of Obamacare, same-sex marriage, executive amnesty, ISIS and other terrorist organizations roaming the planet freely and growing stronger, the courts being stacked with ultra-liberal judges, etc. has been heard loud and clear as a result. Most, if not all, of those things would not have happened without Obama being elected twice, despite how uninspiring and far less than desirable those two last nominees were. Our only motivation to supporting them was they were the vehicles we were forced into to try to keep Obama out rather than liking the vehicle itself at the same time. As far as Rubio, he has changed his mind on far fewer issues than has Trump and has been far more consistently conservative on far more issues. Rubio isn't allowed to change his mind on the immigration bill, but Trump can change his mind on virtually every issue, praise Planned Parenthood and defend continued federal funds for the alleged "good things" they do, praise the disastrous single-payer healthcare system in Canada, lecture "the conservatives" over healthcare policy, etc. and he's a more genuine Republican and conservative. Ridiculous. Yes, I appreciate a number of the things he has done in this campaign, but the logic that he's supposedly the more consistent conservative candidate in this race over all others is nonsensical...acting like any cause for concern is hardly irrational. At the same time, who else but Trump could have forced some of these issues to the forefront and forced the media to cover such things as the crimes committed by having a wide open border? If other candidates had mentioned it, would the press have even covered it? Hence, I'm glad he's in the race. Yes, I like MOST of the things he is saying now, but I have reason to doubt they are sincere, just like I have trouble with Rubio's sudden renouncement of the immigration bill he once cosponsored...though I like many of the things he is saying now about getting the border fully secured...if he truly means he would do that first before entertaining what to do with those already here. Then there's Walker, who I was leaning toward, if I was leaning toward any candidate, given how he actually showed leadership in Wisconsin (as well as the Republican legislature...which showed there actually is life within the party at least somewhere), but given how many positions he took within one week on immigration recently I'm not so sure on that now...based on his collapse in the polls I guess I'm not the only one.

[BlackAdderess]

From what I read, that is part of what he has in mind, but from what I read he wants to go further and get us to stop bleeding money.

You’ve got to figure that if you are in a situation where you are losing money in a regular and sustained way, continuing to devote ever greater percentages of what you have left to utility bills is a losing strategy that at best buys you some time. Your priority should be to stop losing money!

[BlackAdderess]

Trump seems to be the only one not resigned to a continued trajectory of low (at best) growth for our nation. So when he says he wants to cut taxes across the board, pundits either figure he’s lying or stupid. They seem to fail to grasp the other possibility, higher growth.

I think he’s just basically Scottish and can’t stand seeing our nation go down the road of profligate and dissolute unprofitability.