Trump: Don’t Make Corporations Pay Their Taxes

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MORNING MESSAGE

Dave Johnson

Trump: Don’t Make Corporations Pay Their Taxes

Republican economics has been stated a thousand ways by a thousand (always paid) voices. But the basic idea behind all the schemes has been hard to pin down. Finally Republican front-runner Donald Trump has spelled it out in a way anyone can understand ... Trump clearly articulates the Republican/Billionaire/Wall Street case for a low-or-zero tax on corporate profits: “because they don’t want to pay the tax.” ... Never mind the decades of gibberish we have been subjected to about “tax cuts increase revenue to the government” and “low taxes means more jobs” ... Trump has spelled it out, once and for, that all this is really about “because they don’t want to pay the tax.”

http://ourfuture.org/20150820/trump-articulates-core-gop-economic-argument?utm_source=progressive_breakfast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pbreak

[DetlefK]

1. Telling the truth has downsides.

Let's see if Fox News still likes Trump once these gems get assembled into a super-cut.
"Hey, every rich guy buys politicians. That's life!"
"They want tax-cuts because they don't want to pay taxes."

[kelliekat44]

2. Yeah, we need to make sure their words have life around the Internet and on RW discussion boards. n

[leftofcool]

3. Give poor Donald some credit.

He is honest about it. Dems have been saying it for years and Donald just admitted it. You have to give a guy some credit for coming out and saying what the GOP has been thinking for the last 50 years. Personally, I am so glad Trump in on their team. He is making the entire GOP look like buffoons. Good for him.

[NCjack]

4. Only poor suckers (people such as myself) pay their taxes. "Corporations

are people, my friend." But, corporations are not suckers. That's the GOP system.

[pampango]

5. Cut billionaire 'job creators' a break. Go after poor folks - union members, immigrants, etc.

Typical republican strategy. Go after foreigners; cater to our 1%. Then try to convince the 99% that will solve our economic problems.

[lonestarnot]

6. Corporate wel/warfare at its best.

[kentuck]

7. Well, he has said...

that no one knows the system better than he...

[Gothmog]

8. The tax burden has been shifted from corporations to individuals

[AZ Progressive]

9. And yet the corporations use LOTS of government services, including the courts.

[AZ Progressive]

10. Right Wingers: "I want government services but I don't want to pay for them!"

And yet they have the audacity to accuse poor people of being moochers and sit on their high horse of "personal responsibility". So thus secretly they WANT to be moochers!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. Years go, I remember Republicans saying "there's no free lunch"

in reference to people getting welfare and other government benefits. Now that's all the 1% want.

[hifiguy]

13. Socialism for the corporations and the wealthy,

the sharpest possible part of feudalism's wedge for everyone else.

[hifiguy]

12. One of my favorite quotes is from John Kenneth Galbraith:

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

Hell Toupee just openly admitted it, as he has openly admitted so much of what drives repukes but remains unsaid.

[kentuck]

14. He also said that Democrats should....

"comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable",,