Daily Kos: The Real Fireworks Are About To Begin (Trump Gone Mad?) [View all]
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/27/1415992/-The-Real-Fireworks-Are-About-To-Begin?detail=facebook
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Donald Trump is not just going to propose raising taxes, and propose raising taxes on the rich, but he is going to argue that too many of the rich and large corporations have been acting like "takers."
Hoo-boy! Let the real fireworks begin:
Republican front-runner Donald Trump began to flesh out his economic vision for America, and it includes raising taxes on the wealthy. Trump said during a Wednesday interview on Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect that he would like to change the tax code.
Trump sat down with Bloomberg Politics’ Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, and surprisingly enough, he voiced his support for scrapping the carried-interest loophole, which tax hedge-fund profits at a lower rate than usual income. Eliminating the Wall Street tax break been a priority for many Democrats for quite a while.
Trump went on to complain that multi-millionaires are currently “paying very little tax and I think it’s outrageous.” After stressing his support for middle-class tax breaks – the Republican candidate has not yet outlined any specifics – Trump added, “I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing and it’s ridiculous, OK?”
As the NYT reports, Trump has also proposed imposing a 35% additional tax on carmakers that ship jobs overseas, and ...
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Whoa ! ... Complete anathema to the red meat conservaweenies .... He is at the top of the GOP heap, and he pulls this ? ...
Hell .. He sounds like Sanders ! ...
WTF is he up to ?
Crazy ...
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