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Trump: You Bet I Support Raising Taxes on the Rich
Townhall ^ | 04/21/2016 | Guy Benson

Posted on 04/21/2016 2:08:04 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

GUTHRIE: Do you believe in raising taxes on the wealthy?

TRUMP: I do. I do – including myself. I do.

That was...this morning, in an interview that featured some other controversial statements.  In fairness to Trump, he's been using the "raise taxes on rich people like me" line for months, embracing Obama-style class warfare tax gimmicks like the 'Buffet Rule.'  But raising taxes on anyone, an outcome Trump just re-endorsed, is not what his formal policy agenda proposes.  Just the opposite.  As we've seen on issues such immigrationabortion and foreign policy, Trump routinely makes clear that he isn't familiar with his own positions.  His stances aren't rooted in conviction, coherent ideological underpinnings or governing philosophy.  They "evolve" and morph depending on how Trump is feeling in any given moment.  Some professed conservatives may be perfectly comfortable voting for a tax-hiking, entitlement reform-opposing critic of Ronald Reagan's tax cuts.  But many Republicans, including a 62 percent majority of GOP primary voters thus far, aren't eager to turn the keys of the party over to someone whose record and current statements build a strong case against the proposition that he's reliable conservative -- or much of a conservative at all.  Parting thought: It's astonishing that this man appeals to people who loathe establishment "insider" types.  Earlier in the answer above, longtime Democratic donor chuckles with multimillionaire celebrity newsman Matt Lauer about all the fancy parties they've attended together with hotshot bankers in New York.  Man of the people.

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To: SunStar

So do I go by what someone else posts on a campaign website, or do I go by what Donald Trump actually says?


201 posted on 04/21/2016 2:53:29 PM PDT by Hoodat (Article 4, Sec. 4)
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To: ScottinVA

I am relieved that globalist Ted isn’t going to be President. The reference to Piedmont must have more towards Heidi than me....


202 posted on 04/21/2016 2:53:38 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: chae

If you told me a year ago that the founder of this website said that we should “COALESE” around you would have sent me to the nuthouse!


203 posted on 04/21/2016 2:53:48 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Sooo... calling people 14 and 15 is being a grown up.

You need to take a little time out now.


204 posted on 04/21/2016 2:54:35 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: JSDude1

West Virginia would gladly accept “Coalesing.”


205 posted on 04/21/2016 2:55:05 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ColdOne

Responsibility2nd didn’t get the liberal Tribeca with Trump. AMERICA did. Don’t the Trumpsters get this? This is about our COUNTRY. I freaking hate liberals. And now it’s proven more and more Trump is liberal ALONG with his followers.

If I wanted his lamebrain policies, I’d vote for a Democrat! At least I’d know what I was getting


206 posted on 04/21/2016 2:55:08 PM PDT by DrewsMum (If they wanted a conservative, they'd vote for one.)
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To: altura

It’s a grownup way of describing what you, and others like you, have become.


207 posted on 04/21/2016 2:55:31 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: kjam22
Have you been to this thread and expressed your opinion yet?

Congratulations to our presumptive nominee, Donald Trump!

208 posted on 04/21/2016 2:55:54 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Haiku Guy

“My family makes a lot of money, and we pay a lot of taxes. I don’t know what all these tax break are that you are talking about”

Check out tax free foundations that limousine liberals use.


209 posted on 04/21/2016 2:56:27 PM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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To: Nervous Tick
>> Any moment now, I expect some stompy footing and crying about how Cruz stole Colorado. Or even the “Cuban Mistress Crisis”.

And when all else fails, bring on the photoshop caricatures!

 

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Absolutely. And then follow those up with mean, crass, hostile insults and lies. The type of which would get a Cruzer zotted if they used that accepted approach against the trumpists.

210 posted on 04/21/2016 2:57:16 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Sorry Donald. My candidates support pro-life.)
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To: central_va
Cruz wants VAT which is the poster child for globalist liberal socialist taxation.

This statement is the poster child for this:


211 posted on 04/21/2016 2:57:24 PM PDT by Hoodat (Article 4, Sec. 4)
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To: Catsrus

Corporations dont pay taxes.

People do. In the form of lower wages/income and higher prices.


212 posted on 04/21/2016 2:57:35 PM PDT by fooman (#NeverHillary Get real with Kin Jung mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Trump is talking about making it flatter and fairer. It ought to beat the whatsis out of today’s social engineering schemes.”

Flatter and fairer is Cruz’s flat tax.

A tax on the “rich” is not “flatter and fairer” and it’s not conservative.


213 posted on 04/21/2016 2:57:38 PM PDT by diamond6 ("I'm going to do EXACTLY what I told you I'm going to do!" - Ted Cruz)
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To: Hoodat

Is that your dinner?


214 posted on 04/21/2016 2:58:19 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: chae

Same here. Speechless? Not yet but getting there. There seems to be no sh4t Sandwich that Mr. Trump can serve that will be turned down. I make a his pledge right here. If Cruz comes out in favor of the mentally ill using the shower and bathroom of their choice I write in Sessions.


215 posted on 04/21/2016 2:58:52 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: SunStar

[Trump’s tax plan has been on his site for months, for all to read]

Then Trump should read it, because he doesn’t seem to know what’s in it (and he obviously opposes it since he supports raising taxes).


216 posted on 04/21/2016 2:59:06 PM PDT by KansasGirl (So proud to say, "I voted for Ted Cruz!")
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To: central_va

Yep. Sure have. Spent hours there. Probably a 100 + posts.

Why? Were you there?


217 posted on 04/21/2016 2:59:16 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Sorry Donald. My candidates support pro-life.)
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To: central_va; Hoodat

I think somebody dropped one of Mr. Trump’s “nothing burgers”.


218 posted on 04/21/2016 2:59:30 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Born In America

There are also conservative sites and conservative facebook pages and groups that have now banned any links to FR articles because they only allow credible sources (kind of how FR used to only allow credible articles). It really shocked me and pained me to see.


219 posted on 04/21/2016 2:59:47 PM PDT by DrewsMum (If they wanted a conservative, they'd vote for one.)
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To: Trumpinator

“The deception is to pretend that Trump never stood for this and to try and spin this as if it is Trump flip flopping.”

The deception is on the Trumpbots. I’ve been screaming about this for months.

Are any of you listening?

Do you care about ANYTHING conservative?


220 posted on 04/21/2016 2:59:54 PM PDT by diamond6 ("I'm going to do EXACTLY what I told you I'm going to do!" - Ted Cruz)
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