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Mmm Bush Jr brought change by attacking Iraq. Not sure Gore white house woulda done that. Obama brought Obamakare
Sure many things woulda been the same: Bombings, wars, spying. But there are marked differences
I really don't think Gore would have lied, bullied, intimidated Congress, CIA/NSA, the media to invade Iraq for oil, or created Medicare Advantage to enrich BigInsurance, or written regulations to block govt from negotiating drug prices, or made a huge reduction in taxes on the wealthy and estates.
Mmm Bush Jr brought change by attacking Iraq. Not sure Gore white house woulda done that. Obama brought Obamakare
Sure many things woulda been the same: Bombings, wars, spying. But there are marked differences
That's what I'm talking about
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only candidate allowed to curse on national tv
Maybe even a little drunk
Thats the best part. I think he's sloshed most of the time or on some xanax or both or some bull like that.
But, but, his polls are sliding because the establishment says so! We really need him to not be popular!
He's really impressing me in foreign policy.
He says Obama's strategy to hand over weapons and vehicles to whoever will take them is a disgrace
He said let the Russians take Syria for now and concentrate on Iraq.
ing genius.
He should be commander in chief
Completely agree. We are wasting time and money in Syria. If Russia wants to take over that disaster, then let them go right ahead.
Hear hear.
Trump also said. Once Assad falls, who's going to take over?? We don't even know who were helping.
I'm not going to start WWIII over Syria...
ing genius
Trump’s tax plan should be led ‘The Art of the Con’
Such obvious deceptions and bogus thinking would get him fired on ‘The Apprentice’
If you believe that the $18.1 trillion federal debt should be much bigger, that the rich don’t have nearly enough, and that corporations need a tax-rate cut of 57 percent, then Donald Trump has just what you are looking for.
The real estate mogul and reality TV star who wants to be president put out a do ent he called a tax plan. Like many of his business deals, it is long on boastfulness and short on money to pay the inevitable bills.
Trump told “60 Minutes” that his plan will work because “overall, it’s going to be a tremendous incentive to grow the economy and we’re going to take in the same or more money … We’re gonna grow the economy so much.”
He would cut the top tax rate from 39.6 percent to 25 percent, cut the corporate rate from 35 percent to 15 percent and eliminate the estate tax so the children of billionaires inherit tax-free. (Most of the estate tax falls on economic gains that have never been taxed, as I showed in my book “Perfectly Legal”.) That sounds like more of the tried and failed Republican tax policies of the past 35 years.
Trump says he can make up for the lost tax revenue partly by requiring hedge-fund managers to pay at the top tax rate and ending corporate tax deferrals — something I have championed for years. But there’s just dimes in these proposals to offset lost dollars.
He would also eliminate the income tax for 75 million households, up from the 53 million households in 2013, by exempting the first $25,000 of earnings from tax, double that for married couples. Currently about 36 percent of tax returns show no tax owed, mostly because people are poor (about 35 million households) or have children who qualify for the $1,000 per child tax credit championed by Republicans in Congress.
Tax breaks for me, not thee
Speaking of children, assuming Trump is worth the $10 billion he claims (his election disclosures indicate its likely closer to $1 billion), his five children would save about $800 million each in taxes on their inheritances from his estate-tax repeal. That would seem to put his children in the same situation as hotel scion Barron Hilton, whom Trump once dismissed because he owed his riches to being a member of “the lucky sperm club.”
Trump also says he would close loopholes to raise revenue, but does not say which. That’s interesting because Trump benefits from an outrageous loophole, a 1990s tax-code change that let’s people who work just 15 hours a week in real estate live tax-free.
All you need is a enough buildings so that your annual write down for depreciation exceeds your income from other sources such as, say, a television show and royalties for putting your name on neckties made in China. Everyone who does not qualify for this loophole is limited to offsetting no more than $25,000 of earned income with depreciation.
I wonder if we will ever see Trump’s tax returns and learn just how much he saves because of this loophole. Early in his career, his tax returns showed that paper losses from real estate were so huge he escaped income taxes, as I revealed in “Temples of Chance,” my 1992 book on Trump and other casino moguls.
Laughable
When I read the Trump tax plan, vagaries and all, I literally burst out laughing at its fairy tales. But I also knew most people would not understand that his plan was fantasy wrapped in deception, Trump’s art of the con.
Having spent five decades studying taxes I know the Trump tax is as realistic as human transporters. Having covered Trump on and off since 1988, I also knew that reporters would faithfully regurgitate his plan with no more than a dash of skepticism.
The Trump tax cannot do anything but create economic disaster. But don’t take my word for it; take the word of one of the leading opponents of taxes in America, the nonprofit Tax Foundation.
Its computer model shows that federal revenues would drop by almost $12 trillion in the next decade. That is well more than a third of what the government is expected to collect in individual and corporate income taxes in ten years after President Barack Obama leaves office so the annual federal deficit would balloon.
Under President Obama the annual budget deficit has shrunk by two-thirds to 2.5 percent of the economy, which is less than the average of George W. Bush budgets. By contrast, Trump’s plan would put the deficit deep into double digits.
But it’s actually much worse than that, as the Tax Foundation’s disclaimers show. Its computer model ignores such basics as “fiscal or economic effects of interest on debt” and “does not require budgets to balance over the long term.” The Tax Foundation also ignores the effects of spending cuts (or increases) on the economy overall.
Spend, spend, spend
Trump the would-be tax cutter also promises to be Trump the big spender.
Trump wants universal health care. That would sharply lower America’s overall healthcare costs, if done wisely. But while private spending would fall or even be eliminated, government spending would rise.
Next comes the cost of rounding up millions of illegal aliens. Trump says he would remove people summarily, but our Cons ution limits such power. The president can only do what Congress authorizes and finances; he must follow the due process judicial procedures that safeguard liberty.
Then there’s that nearly 2,000-mile wall Trump wants to build on the Mexican border.
And what of Trump’s plans for more wars? He escaped the Vietnam era draft, but says the military school his father sent him to because of his persistent misbehavior was like serving. Trump is very clear, as even far right political website have noted, that he will send your sons and daughters where he would not go — into battle.
The cost of a new Middle East war, just in terms of drains on the taxpayers, would likely continue well into the 22nd century. After all, the last Civil War dependent’s pension was still being paid in 2013.
The peak year for World War II veteran benefits was 1993.
My guess is that the ridiculousness of his tax plan means that Trump is about to fade politically, allowing him to resume his lucrative career as a television entertainer, where he can flourish.
For the sake of your wallet and your country, you should hope so.
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinion...f-the-con.html
Trevor Noah realized that Donald Trump’s campaign style is in fact very presidential — he’s just like some of the more notorious presidents from back in Trevor’s home continent of Africa.
Indeed, Trump’s many notorious quotations resemble exactly the likes of Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Robert Mugabe, and many more.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/late-night-roundup-the-first-african-president-donald-trump/
Voodoo Never Dies
So Donald Trump has unveiled his tax plan. It would, it turns out, lavish huge cuts on the wealthy while blowing up the deficit.
This is in contrast to Jeb Bush’s plan, which would lavish huge cuts on the wealthy while blowing up the deficit, and Marco Rubio’s plan, which would lavish huge cuts on the wealthy while blowing up the deficit.
For what it’s worth, it looks as if Trump’s plan would make an even bigger hole in the budget than Jeb’s. Jeb justifies his plan by claiming that it would double America’s rate of growth; The Donald, ahem, trumps this by claiming that he would triple the rate of growth. But really, why sweat the details? It’s all voodoo. The interesting question is why every Republican candidate feels compelled to go down this path.
You might think that there was a defensible economic case for the obsession with cutting taxes on the rich. That is, you might think that if you’d spent the past 20 years in a cave (or a conservative think tank). Otherwise, you’d be aware that tax-cut enthusiasts have a remarkable track record: They’ve been wrong about everything, year after year.
Some readers may remember the forecasts of economic doom back in 1993, when Bill Clinton raised the top tax rate. What happened instead was a sustained boom, surpassing the Reagan years by every measure.
Undaunted, the same people predicted great things as a result of George W. Bush’s tax cuts. What happened instead was a sluggish recovery followed by a catastrophic economic crash.
Most recently, the usual suspects once again predicted doom in 2013, when taxes on the 1 percent rose sharply due to the expiration of some of the Bush tax cuts and new taxes that help pay for health reform. What happened instead was job growth at rates not seen since the 1990s.
Then there’s the recent state-level evidence. Kansas slashed taxes,
California moved in the opposite direction, raising taxes; it has recently led the nation in job growth.
True, you can find self-proclaimed economic experts claiming to find overall evidence that low tax rates spur economic growth, but such experts invariably turn out to be on the payroll of right-wing pressure groups (and have an interesting habit of getting their numbers wrong). Independent studies of the correlation between tax rates and economic growth, for example by the Congressional Research Service, consistently find no relationship at all. There is no serious economic case for the tax-cut obsession.
Still, tax cuts are politically popular, right? Actually, no, at least when it comes to tax cuts for the wealthy. According to Gallup, only 13 percent of Americans believe that upper-income individuals pay too much in taxes, while 61 percent believe that they pay too little. Even among self-identified Republicans, those who say that the rich should pay more outnumber those who say they should pay less by two to one.
So every Republican who would be president is committed to a policy that is both demonstrably bad economics and deeply unpopular. What’s going on?
Well, consider the trajectory of Marco Rubio, who may at this point be the most likely Republican nominee. Last year he supported a tax-cut plan devised by Senator Mike Lee that purported to be aimed at the poor and the middle class. In reality, its benefits were strongly tilted toward high incomes — but it still drew harsh criticism from the right for giving too much to ordinary families while not cutting taxes on top incomes enough.
So Mr. Rubio came back with a plan that eliminated taxes on dividends, capital gains, and inherited wealth, providing a huge windfall to the very wealthy. And suddenly he was gaining a lot of buzz among Republican donors. The new plan would add trillions to the deficit, which conservatives claim to care about, but never mind.
In other words, it’s straightforward and quite stark: Republicans support big tax cuts for the wealthy because that’s what wealthy donors want.
No doubt most of those donors have managed to convince themselves that what’s good for them is good for America. But at root it’s about rich people supporting politicians who will make them richer. Everything else is just rationalization.
Of course, once the Republicans settle on a nominee, an army of hired guns will be mobilized to obscure this stark truth. We’ll see claims that it’s really a middle-class tax cut, that it will too do great things for economic growth, and look over there — emails!
And given the conventions of he-said-she-said journalism, this campaign of obfuscation may work.
But never forget that what it’s really about is top-down class warfare. That may sound simplistic, but it’s the way the world works.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/02...ever-dies.html
“Shut the f**k up Donny”: This mashup of The Big Lebowski’s Walter Sobchak silencing Donald Trump is everything
http://www.salon.com/2015/10/02/shut...is_everything/
Shouldn't Salon be busy writing more "pedophile acceptance" propaganda articles?
Pandering to the xenophobes, racists, nativists, Spurtalkers
Donald Trump Preposterously Claims Syrian Refugees Could Launch Military Coup
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/04/donald-trump-syrian-refugees-launch-military-coup.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&ut m_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politicu s+USA+%29
face you should be for trump because of his tax plan, you won't have to pay any federal income taxes
Donny T, of the bull silly hairdo, he's really 69 years old?, and spray on tan, says he will drop out if his poll numbers drop.
Leaving the nomination to Car Lie Fiorina and a 7th Day Adventist freak.
Donald Trump Is Crumbling As George Stephanopoulos Blows His Mr. Fix It Image To Bits
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/04/donald-trump-crumbling-george-stephanopoulos-blows-mr-fix-image-bits.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&ut m_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politicu s+USA+%29
Sometimes I have mixed feelings about Trump. His tax plan is just plain stupid and he got humiliated by George here, yet he is a boarder line genius when it comes to immigration and foreign policy. I love how he asks rhetorically why aren't the wealthy gulf states taking in Syrian refugees? They totally should be!
"he is a boarder line genius when it comes to immigration and foreign policy."
Wow trump is awesome. He said if ghadafi and Saddam were still in power. Everything.would.be more stable.
All, vote for this guy.
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