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What Happens Inside Gaza’s Secret Tunnels? | Unpacked Hamas Torture Bodycam Footage: "These Monsters Filmed it All" | IDF Warfighter Doron Keidar, Ep. 225 EXPOSED: The Dark Truth About the Hostages in Gaza New Task Force Ready To Expose Dark Secrets Egypt Amasses Forces on Israel’s Southern Border | World War 3 About to Start? "Trump wants to dismantle the Education Department. 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Both complaints are untrue, and neither comes close to the type of knowing and malicious falsehood the First Amendment requires a public figure such as Mr. Trump to establish.” At the heart of the issue is the Club for Growth Action ad stating that Trump “supports higher taxes.” Trump’s lawyers say he no longer holds the position the ad refers to, and will soon be unveiling a plan to lower taxes. (Trump has said, however, he intends to target the “hedge fund guys” who he feels aren’t paying their fair share.) Perhaps the more interesting contention from the Club is this: You accuse the Club for Growth of trying to “extort” a million dollars from Mr. Trump in return for its political support. Nonsense. Club Action reports it was Mr. Trump who, last spring, asked to meet with the Club. During the meeting requestsed by Mr. Trump, as reflected in the attached letter to Mr. Trump, the Club’s Mr. [David] McIntosh made clear that the Club and Mr. Trump had important areas of policy disagreement. However, some areas of policy agreement also were identified. Mr. Trump asked how he could support the Club and, upon being informed that a donation would be appreciated, invited Mr. McIntosh to send a follow-up letter through Mr. Lewandowski, who also attended. Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread   Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 62. #6. To: TooConservative (#0) The answer to all of this is not to engage these people directly. Ignore them. Use your own money to get elected. And then, when in power, press a directly populist message that the wealthy will pay the same percentage of their total wealth, from all sources including current income, that the middle middle class and working class do - the people who are above the level of the earned income tax credit, but below the level of the Social Security cutout. Make sure that the wealthy pay the identical taxes on capital gains, including unrealized capital gains, that the middle middle class does. The middle middle class earns wages, and all of them are taxed by social security, medicare and income tax. Therefore, ALL sources of income will be taxed by those same three taxes: capital gains and dividends also, and ALL at the same rate. And unrealized capital gain? That is also taxed to the middle class as well, in the form of property tax on homes (about 1.4% average). So, the middle middle class holds its wealth in homes, and pay 1.4% every year on that wealth. And the super rich hold their wealth as securities, and they shall be taxed at 1.4% of the value of their wealth too, every year, just like the middle middle class are. The second source of middle middle class wealth is automobiles, and they pay a sales tax when they buy them. Let the wealthy pay the same sales tax on the purchase of securities as well. Simply target the different methods by which the rich hold and exchange wealth with the identical taxes, at the same rates, the the middle class pay. That will redistribute about 30% of the wealth of the rich, just as it does the middle class. It is just. It will be popular with everybody but the rich (and they deserve no special breaks or favors), it will make the rich no different from everybody else, strip them of their secret privileges, and force them to compete in just exactly the same ways. And as their wealth concentrations ebb, their power will ebb also. Focus on the middle and working class, and propose tax reform that doesn't make the rich pay MORE taxes, but simply makes the rich pay the same LEVEL of taxes, on all their wealth, that the middle class pay. Do not allow the rich to make special categories of wealth that don't get hit by taxes. Stocks are not different than houses and cars. They're just wealth. But we TAX middle class wealth, every year. Not the wealth of the rich. There is a nice "right across the plate" pitch here that is so obviously just and fair that the only people who will scream are the rich who want to keep their privileges and shift the burden of government to the middle class, as they have done. Spread the burden evenly, and the rich will be brought in line. And then name and shame and nail every special interest group that lobbies for its own tax breaks. No tax breaks, for anybody. Starting at the top, because moves at the top generate greater revenue. Set the tax burden at the level needed to pay the government without a deficit, and as the debt is gradually retired over time, use the excess to pay it faster. Stop the accounting legerdemain. Fair, even and straightforward. No? Then refuse to compromise, let everything shut down, and let it all go to pieces. By doing so, Andrew Johnson turned what would have been the complete rape of the American South into a merely oppressive, tiresome and ultimately ineffective burden of occupation and annoyance. Sometimes you have to know when to draw the line and not budge, and accept that its better to let everything go to pieces than to let the bad guys win. If the choice is to thrown your own child out of the lifeboat to drown, so that the rest in the boat have a better chance of making it, you say that no, we will ALL risk drowning together, and maybe we will all drown together, but we're not throwing my child overboard. Because your lives are no more valuable than his, and it is better that we all die and go to God clean, than they we be murderers, live a few more years, and then all be thrown into hell. And then, when somebody disagrees, you throw HIM out of the boat, and your problem is solved, and he deserves it. That's how you fight. Vicomte13  posted on  2015-09-26   10:03:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #10. To: Vicomte13 (#6) Use your own money to get elected. But Trump gives no indications he is going to cough up that moldy money he's got. His annual cash flow apparently is on the order of $400M. Assuming he'll blow off $100M on immediate expenses for the extended family and such, he'd have $300M in cash. After that, he has to start selling off golf courses and resorts and casinos and hotels. Or borrow money (at a favorable interest rate). You imagine Trump pulling out a big wallet with $1 billion of his own money to run. I would almost bet my own cash money that that will never happen. Recall Perot, another tycoon self-funder. And how much did he spend? AFAIK, even in his first run (when he had to cover the costs of getting the Reform party on all the state ballots), he spent under $60 million. And I'm not sure Trump will even spend $100M. Just think how much Trump has enhanced his name brand all over the world in the last few months. He could quit now, having spent nothing and gotten hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free publicity for his name brand. And Trump, in recent years, is all about putting his brand name (not his own money) into big projects. I know I'm crushing your sweet dreams of the Republican tycoon you can finally love with all your heart and soul but there it is.     : ) Tooconservative  posted on  2015-09-26   12:26:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #25. To: TooConservative (#10) (Edited) I know I'm crushing your sweet dreams of the Republican tycoon you can finally love with all your heart and soul but there it is. : ) Well, I was trying to find something to like that had an "R" behind its name., but I can see myself from the partisan Republicans on this board that they'll never accept Trump. So I'm building Biden or Hillary into my models for the future now, because the only guy with a prayer of beating the Democrats is Trump, and it's obvious to me, just from this board and talking to other Republicans at work (in the NYC finance world) that Trump is not their guy. Some of them voted for Obama (the first time) because Palin was off the reservation of acceptable to them. They're not going to vote outside of their bandwidth. They are the "GOPe". I can vote with the GOP on a Trump, but they and you are all telling me that it won't be him, that you'll never accept him, and I'm beginning to be pretty sure that is true. It's like :Palin. I loved her. The degree of hatred others showed for her, and still do when I mention her, moves them into a certain cadre in my mind. The Republican right is dominated by that sort, and I think of them about the same that they think of Sarah and Trump. So I was hoping I'd have somebody to support, but you Republicans look destined to knock out Trump. I won't vote for him, but I'd rather see Hillary win than let you guys win. Whoever wins the next election puts two butts on the Supreme Court. I'd rather Hillary do that than Runio or Jeb or Fiorina. So now it's just watching a baseball game between two teams I don't care about, but one team I really hate. The Republicans vis-a-vis Trump are like that team that hired Tebow but refused to play him: jackasses that I want to see lose. Vicomte13  posted on  2015-09-26   15:04:43 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #62. To: Vicomte13, redleghunter (#25) Whoever wins the next election puts two butts on the Supreme Court. I'd rather Hillary do that than Runio or Jeb or Fiorina. IOW, your constant protestations aside, you simply do not give a shit about unlimited abortion. Just as I'd come to expect. Tooconservative  posted on  2015-09-26   22:29:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   Replies to Comment # 62. #64. To: TooConservative (#62) (Edited) IOW, your constant protestations aside, you simply do not give a shit about unlimited abortion. Just as I'd come to expect. I do give a shit, but I have come to expect lying, or amnesiac Republicans like you, to keep on pretending that your party, who gave us Roe, and Casey, and Romneycare, and Obamacare, and that funded Planned Parenthood for all these years and again, is pro-life. That way you can keep pretending that the Democrats are worse. But in fact, the Democrats are JUST THE SAME. You Republicans gave us abortion, wrapped it all up nice by the Supreme Court, imposed it, and kept reimposing it, and made it an obligation of taxpayers with your Mitt Romney. You did it. The Democrats just cheerlead and are happy, because they love it. You pretend to hate it, but you don't. You love it. You IMPOSED it. So, I know that there is no difference at all between the parties, and that whichever wins, we're going to have abortion on demand. I know that Republicans, by lying through their teeth, and Christians, by permitting themselves to be dupes following Republicans because they love other unhealthy aspects of the Republican party too much (the un-Christian obsession with Israel, for example), won't break free of the evil and form a NEW party. Therefore, Christian laziness and blindness prevents any organized opposition to the Republcans to emerge. So we're stuck with two pro-abortion parties. Given that, Democrat economics are much more Christian than Republican greed and corruption. So yes, I prefer Democrats over Republicans. Republicans are pro-abortion, pro-war, miilitarily incompetent lovers of mammon. Democrats are pro-abortion, pro-Israel (except for Obama, which is interesting) believers in providing for the poor. Both are evil babykillers. The Democrats are much more economically moral. Democrats are morally better than Republicans on three fronts: Republicans liars, either baldfaced to others or to themselves - refusing to open their eyes, Republicans are very bloodthirsty, loving war and conflict, and Republicans serve mammon. Democrats tell the truth: they're killers of babies and proud of it (which makes them as disgusting as Republicans, but more honest than Republicans, who pretend they're pro-life but impose abortion at every turn), they are less bloodthirsty, and their belief in poverty relief and is far more Christian. I'm still not voting for babykillers. Which means that I won't vote for Republicans or Democrats. Democrats are more moral people, though. Republicans are morally lost on every vector, and they lie to themselves to boot, which makes them incapable of reforming or, really, effectively accomplishing anything good. You can keep trying to peddle your sad pathetic lie that Republicans are pro-life - maybe you even believe it. Open your eyes, man, Wise up. Stop being a dupe. Roe. Casey. Romneycare abortion. Obamacare, Planned Parenthood. O'Connor. Kennedy. Souter. Roberts. Harriet Myers. Terri Schiavo. Republicans are evil. Don't be evil. Get out of that party and shake the dust off the soles of your feet. Vicomte13  posted on  2015-09-26 22:45:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #79. To: TooConservative (#62) IOW, your constant protestations aside, you simply do not give a shit about unlimited abortion. Just as I'd come to expect. The contrary. I view abortion - and the fact that the people of this country, both parties, will never abolish it, is the reason America is truly evil. and will eventually be destroyed by God. And I think the inability of Christians to walk out of the Republican Party, or to stand together, stand up, and stand fast, is an indication of the degree to which the cancer of apostasy has sunken into American Christianity. So, I view this as a tragedy. And I view your dogged residual loyally for the Republicans, and your simultaneous illogical hatred for the Democrats (given their similarities), is a sad example of the loss of way of Christians I described. You come at me doggedly about this, and I see your blindness to the moral indefensibility of your own position - and it makes me sad. Vicomte13  posted on  2015-09-27 01:55:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   End Trace Mode for Comment # 62. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest

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