Donald Trump Announces 2016 White House Bid
- Thread starter B00Mer
- Start date
He's a Yankee... He can't help it. :lol:
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
- Paul Gallico
Who's your Daddy Boomer!
Man you are so salty! It must be because I caught you in your lie about you saying you were in combat when you were in the Navy during the 1970's.
The bygone nation Donald Trump’s supporters yearn for looks awfully liberal, at least in terms of economic policy
When America Was 'Great,' Taxes Were High, Unions Were Strong, and Government Was Big
That slogan resonates with his supporters, according to Republican pollster Frank Luntz, who ran a recent focus group, the results of which were written about in Time. “I used to sleep on my front porch with the door wide open, and now everyone has deadbolts,” one man told Luntz. “I believe the best days of the country are behind us.” Luntz concluded that people see Trump as a “real-deal fixer-upper,” able to make repairs that others have bungled. “We know his goal is to make America great again,” one woman astutely observed. “It’s on his hat.”
It could be on your hat too—Trump has begun selling “Make America Great Again” merchandise—if you can find one, that is. They have a tendency to sell out.
He is not promising to make America great, he’s promising to make it great again.
But to what era does he intend to take the nation back? And what would that look like, practically speaking?
“By 1953, more than one out of three American workers were members of private sector unions. That means there was a union member in nearly every family.”
Then there’s the matter of taxes. Though a conservative writer at Bloomberg View scoffs at the oft-cited statistic that the top marginal tax rate in the ‘50s was an astounding 91 percent, even she admits that “the IRS reckoned that the effective rate of tax in 1954 for top earners was actually 70 percent”—vastly higher than it is today. Indeed, for most of the past 100 years, tax rates have been much higher than they are now, including during some boom times.
If bigger government, stronger unions, and higher taxes on the rich are what it takes to make America great again, Republican primary voters might be surprised to learn that the candidate who truly shares their values is not Donald Trump, but Bernie Sanders.
What Does Donald Trump's 'Great' America Look Like? - The Atlantic
When America Was 'Great,' Taxes Were High, Unions Were Strong, and Government Was Big
That slogan resonates with his supporters, according to Republican pollster Frank Luntz, who ran a recent focus group, the results of which were written about in Time. “I used to sleep on my front porch with the door wide open, and now everyone has deadbolts,” one man told Luntz. “I believe the best days of the country are behind us.” Luntz concluded that people see Trump as a “real-deal fixer-upper,” able to make repairs that others have bungled. “We know his goal is to make America great again,” one woman astutely observed. “It’s on his hat.”
It could be on your hat too—Trump has begun selling “Make America Great Again” merchandise—if you can find one, that is. They have a tendency to sell out.
He is not promising to make America great, he’s promising to make it great again.
But to what era does he intend to take the nation back? And what would that look like, practically speaking?
“By 1953, more than one out of three American workers were members of private sector unions. That means there was a union member in nearly every family.”
Then there’s the matter of taxes. Though a conservative writer at Bloomberg View scoffs at the oft-cited statistic that the top marginal tax rate in the ‘50s was an astounding 91 percent, even she admits that “the IRS reckoned that the effective rate of tax in 1954 for top earners was actually 70 percent”—vastly higher than it is today. Indeed, for most of the past 100 years, tax rates have been much higher than they are now, including during some boom times.
If bigger government, stronger unions, and higher taxes on the rich are what it takes to make America great again, Republican primary voters might be surprised to learn that the candidate who truly shares their values is not Donald Trump, but Bernie Sanders.
What Does Donald Trump's 'Great' America Look Like? - The Atlantic
So, enough of the troll and back to Trump.
EVERYONE gets a tax cut. What's not to like about that?
EVERYONE gets a tax cut. What's not to like about that?
:lol: he's a Liberal tax and spend... Where will he get the money to run the government?
... except for that little thing of waging two wars simultaneously on the other side of the World for years.
I know, I know ... peanuts compare to Obama Care!
Of course not. Every single leaden centavo of the debt is the sole and exclusive fault of the Democrats.
Yup.
There's no point arguing with true believers. It's like all the cartoons of a car flying off the side of a bridge with the driver saying "The GPS says to turn here!"