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originally posted by: Swills
a reply to: John_Rodger_Cornman
That's his best case scenario, he's a salesmen, and that ain't good. Who trusts a salesmen? Either way, he uses racism, sexism, basically is a bully as a tool to sell himself so that leads me to think he's really just as he appears to be. Obviously, when on stage the BS rises to all new levels but deep down he's just a racist, sexist, jerk of a bully who mocks disabled people.
Never getting my vote or my respect.
-Building a wall on the Mexican - US border is a dumb idea. It sends a horrible sign to the international community. We don't need walls.
-Mass deportation of 11 million people is impractical and silly.
-Massively lowering taxes is good. But libertarians are for total removal of the IRS and removal of the income/corporate tax with a flat sales tax.
Claiming he's for banning a religion from immigrating to the US.
originally posted by: Gothmog
a reply to: John_Rodger_Cornman
-Building a wall on the Mexican - US border is a dumb idea. It sends a horrible sign to the international community. We don't need walls.
Why not ? It is ILLEGAL to enter this country without becoming a citizen , right ? Federal Law.There is a reason for this , and it aint discrimination.
It is illegal. But the numbers of people here make mass deportation impractical to execute. A fine and having to pay backed taxes is enough. No voting unless your a citizen.No working without a work visa. No dragging people out of their homes.Felons get deported automatically.
And what is sending a horrible sign to the international community ? France , UK , now Belgium (among others) have or are in process of closing off their borders. Even some countries in Africa. - Rhetoric
walls are powerful symbols to the world. I don't want our symbol to the world to be a wall "saying don't come here we are insulated xenophobes".
Where is the warmongering ?
Every GOP candidate is warmongering including him.
-Mass deportation of 11 million people is impractical and silly.
Again , incorrect. It is exactly what Federal Immigration laws state should happen
Correct but its impractical to do so because of the numbers of immigrants here.Its better to just to fine them and have them wait for citizenship with a work visa.
-Massively lowering taxes is good. But libertarians are for total removal of the IRS and removal of the income/corporate tax with a flat sales tax.
Again , rhetoric filled. Not just libertarians . It was started by Libertarians , but is a growing movement. Worst fallacy of this that you stated - nowhere in the fair tax proposal does it state anything about removal of corporate taxes.Read it sometimes. On a real website.
www.ontheissues.org...
"But those mom-and-pop stores? The tech startups? The nimble new corporations with new ideas and new visions for our economy? They pay as much as 35 cents on every dollar they earn. When the company pays its employees, the government taxes that money again. We need to STOP TAXING WORK, savings and investment. I advocate REMOVING ALL INCOME TAXES, all capital-gains taxes, and replacing them with a consumption tax, kind of a NATIONAL SALES TAX called the Fair-tax."
"Throwing out the ENTIRE FEDERAL TAX SYSTEM and replacing it with a consumption tax, the FairTax, which would absolutely reboot the American economy because it DOES AWAY WITH THE CORPORATE TAX to create tens of millions of jobs in this country"
Claiming he's for banning a religion from immigrating to the US.
Again , check out what your far left liberal friends in the far left European Countries are saying and doing as we speak. Not against a religion at all . Terrorist extremists.
I am pretty center-right actually. Putting people under multiple checks(and denying people that fail the checks) from a list of countries that harbor terrorists is fine and rational.Even banning a countries citizens from coming into your country is fine.Just don't discriminate solely based on religion alone.Not all Muslims immigrants are violent jihadists.
In summation - Post filled with rhetoric and inaccuracies.
And isnt pandering to the base the num er one goal of any politician , anywhere in the world ?
originally posted by: John_Rodger_Cornman
The biased left leaning media are actually helping him when they attack him.
originally posted by: John_Rodger_Cornman
Trump is not a racist or sexist he's a pandering salesman. What he's doing is pandering to the right wing conservatives. He's telling them what they want to hear. He's making grand promises..
originally posted by: mkultra11
a reply to: John_Rodger_Cornman
I basically agree with everything you said. Of course he's pandering, he has to in order to keep advancing, so that's not as shocking as anyone else running for President. It's working so he's going to keep doing it. The problem is how is this two-party system going to be broken? A third party will never get that support to realistically win the white house. As much as I don't like Trump and I feel he needs to tone down the rhetoric and get real, he might serve some kind of purpose here. He shouldn't even be running under the Republican ticket and is extremely disruptive to the party, which I like seeing.