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Draft Trump?!
Never mind that Trump’s 2011 activity wasn’t much more than promotional copy for Season 12 of The Apprentice. Consider that on the issues, he’s right next to The Great White Obama when it comes to parroting The Barack‘s policy positions:
- Institution of a once-only 14.25 percent tax on personal estates and trusts over $10 million, which he estimated would raise $5.7 trillion in revenue toward retirement of the national debt, tax cuts for the middle class, and supplementing the funding of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; and, by way of compensating this one-time tax on the wealthy, permanent abolition of the 55 percent federal inheritance tax.
- Repeal of limits on campaign contributions, combined with outlawing soft money campaign contributions
- Regarding universal health care, Trump touted himself as “a conservative on most issues, but a liberal on this one. Working out detailed plans will take time. But the goal should be clear: Our people are our greatest asset.”
Trump’s present political stances include being pro-life, against same-sex marriage, anti-gun control, advocating the repeal and replacement of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, anti-foreign aid; and supporting a fair trade policy and believing generally that the People’s Republic of China should be considered more of an adversarial competitor, subjected to significant import tariffs as a response to China’s currency manipulation in order to help balance the U.S. budget. He said he would impose a 25 percent tariff on Chinese goods. He also believes the U.S. should disengage in Iraq and Afghanistan. In December 2008, Trump supported a government backed rescue plan for the American auto industry where the government would provide the debtor in possession financing for a Chapter 11 restructuring.
Emphasis on the word present – give him a week and it could flip 180 degrees.
Anyway, I take it as a given that Trump’s “politics” are all about reinforcing his spot in the current mercantilist plutocracy, where people like himself use their influence with public officials to coerce the rest of us into giving them what they want. Just ask Vera Coking.
If you hear anything from Trump lambasting The Barack for America’s national debt, disregard it – he’s got ∅900,000,000 in personal debt and ∅3,500,000,000 in business-related debt.
But at this time, this is all moot – Trump has endorsed Romney (for the time being).
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