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Title: Donald Trump's Unusual Plan to Lower the National Debt: Sell Off Government Assets
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NBC News
URL Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/201 ... l-debt-sell-government-n549946
Published: Apr 3, 2016
Author: ANNE THOMPSON and CHRISTINA COLEBURN
Post Date: 2016-04-03 20:24:58 by Roscoe
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Views: 4943
Comments: 29
As president, Donald Trump would sell off $16 trillion worth of U.S. government assets in order to fulfill his pledge to eliminate the national debt in eight years, senior adviser with the campaign Barry Bennett said.
"The United States government owns more real estate than anybody else, more land than anybody else, more energy than anybody else," Bennett told Chris Jansing Sunday on MSNBC. "We can get rid of government buildings we're not using, we can extract the energy from government lands, we can do all kinds of things to extract value from the assets that we hold."
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This should drive the cucks into a full fledged panic.
#2. To: Roscoe (#1)
Cucks?
#3. To: Roscoe (#0)
Donald Trump would sell off $16 trillion worth of U.S. government assets
At last a semblence of reasonable economic policy, in a capitalist economy why does the government own these assets, doesn't it believe in free enterprise? and with the national debt gone the budget could be balanced without too much pain. Perhaps Dump can covert these assets into walls along the mexican border
#4. To: tpaine (#2)
Cucks?
Dumbcucks
#5. To: Roscoe (#0)
For Sale
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul#6. To: hondo68 (#5)
You could always walk to your special education classes.
#7. To: paraclete (#3)
And with the costs of administering the assets gone, the feds could use the savings for tax reductions.
#8. To: paraclete (#4)
#9. To: paraclete, Y'ALL (#4)
This should drive the cucks into a full fledged panic. ---- Roscoe
Cucks? --- tpaine
Dumbcucks --- paraclete
Roscuckers?
#10. To: Roscoe (#0)
Donald Trump's Unusual Plan to Lower the National Debt: Sell Off Government Assets
It won't work because $300,000,000 isn't enough to pay for the escalating level of self indulgence and stupidity in this country for more than a week. There isn't enough money in the country to purchase the assets. Who are you going to sell it to, the Chinese?
Trump, please shut up! You're destroying your credability.
#11. To: rlk (#10)
The owners of the National Debt hold an asset greater than $300,000,000.
#12. To: Roscoe (#8)
Cuckservatives
as I said
#13. To: rlk (#10) (Edited)
It won't work because $300,000,000 who you going to sell them to
some zeros missing there try at least another 4, no Dump wants to buy them, prime real estate
#14. To: Roscoe (#7) (Edited)
And with the costs of administering the assets gone, the feds could use the savings for tax reductions.
let's not get carried away, in order for there to be reductions people have to be paying tax. You want to give Dump a tax reduction on nothing, you will owe him money
#15. To: paraclete (#14)
people have to be paying tax
I'm sure there are some, but I don't know anybody who isn't paying taxes.
#16. To: paraclete (#13)
some zeros missing
You are correct. My typing error.
#17. To: Roscoe (#15)
I don't know anybody who isn't paying taxes.
You might have a limited range of friends there, statistics suggest the majority pay very little
#18. To: paraclete (#17)
statistics suggest the majority pay very little
The majority of people pay about 20% of their income as some form of tax. Social Security and and Medicare taxes apply, without deduction, to the first dollar earned, and everybody pays sales taxes and excise taxes when they buy things.
There are also taxes on every phone call, taxes on energy use, taxes on water. If you own, you pay real estate taxes. If you rent short term you pay room taxes. There are taxes on everything. Income taxes only make up about 40% of total tax revenues. The majority of taxes AREN'T income taxes.
#19. To: paraclete (#17)
pay very little
moving goalpost
#20. To: Roscoe (#0)
Maybe he'll sell off all those Federal lands that he swore need to remain "pristine" .
"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools." Plato
#21. To: tomder55 (#20) (Edited)
Or some small part of the $128 trillion in federally controlled petroleum resources.
#22. To: Roscoe (#21)
Or some small part of the $128 trillion in federally controlled petroleum resources.
then he's finally proposing a conservative position. I'm all in favor of lifting the ban on drilling in Federal lands . While we are at it we should lift the export ban.
"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools." Plato
#23. To: tomder55 (#22)
Finally? He supports hydraulic fracturing and oil independence.
#24. To: Vicomte13 (#18)
Now you know why your econony doesn't work the emphasis is in the wrong place
#25. To: paraclete (#24)
Now you know why your econony doesn't work the emphasis is in the wrong place
No economies work in the long run, because people are too cruel to each other and forget God, and sooner or later there is a reckoning. England, France, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, China, Latin America - and America - sooner or later there is always a reckoning. The only question then is whether or not people learn anything from the horror.
Generally they do, for a generation, but then the new generation comes, and the one after, and they do not remember, and individual ambitions become overwhelming, and customary favored seats become hard-wired by law, and the cruelty rises and rises until it stinks to heaven.
And then, sooner or later, there is another reckoning.
To quote Kipling: "We are very slightly changed from the semi-apes who ranged India's prehistoric clay. He who drew the longest bow ran his brother down, you know, as we run men down today."
#26. To: Vicomte13 (#25)
The only question then is whether or not people learn anything from the horror
The only ones who truely remember are those who were there, a few laws are passed and then they are lost in history
#27. To: Vicomte13 (#25)
Well Japan clearly learned! But it's a generation of affeminate men who chase after images of extremely young and infantile women, declining birth rate, and extremely over-worked society.
#28. To: goodnessmarlok (#27)
They're dying out.
#29. To: Vicomte13 (#28)
You never did tell me what you think of the East Asians - in particular the Japanese and Koreans. European people certainly do love them and are fanciful of them. :D
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