Demand is never going away... has never gone away in a decade and in over 30 years of "war on drugs".
Need to legalize them, tax them, disable drug dealers and clean the streets.
Hard penalties for using in the street, no penalties for using them in the comfort of your own home or pub restrooms
i can't help but feeling that Trump from the beginning planned his war on political correctness by deciding to bait
the principal offenders into their feigned outrage hysteria as never before, in order to show the voting public
how destructive a negative force it can be. Sometimes he thinks out of the box & up to now
his strategy seems to have worked. Trump more than anyone, can create a seachanged in the thoughts of all
interested in the real success of this country.
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the principal offenders into their feigned outrage hysteria as never before, in order to show the voting public
how destructive a negative force it can be. Sometimes he thinks out of the box & up to now
his strategy seems to have worked. Trump more than anyone, can create a seachanged in the thoughts of all
interested in the real success of this country.
.
Demand is never going away... has never gone away in a decade and in over 30 years of "war on drugs".
Need to legalize them, tax them, disable drug dealers and clean the streets.
Hard penalties for using in the street, no penalties for using them in the comfort of your own home or pub restrooms
I can't ever endorse the legalization of drugs like meth, heroin or coke. Stuff like that will never be ok in my book.
Good idea by Trump. Here's another. Hope he revives both:
[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif][h=2]Trump proposes massive one-time tax on the rich[/h][h=4]By Phil Hirschkorn/CNN[/h][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]November 9, 1999
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has a plan to pay off the national debt, grant a middle class a tax cut, and keep Social Security afloat: tax rich people like himself.
Trump, a prospective candidate for the Reform Party presidential nomination, is proposing a one-time "net worth tax" on individuals and trusts worth $10 million or more.
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The U.S. national debt decreased by $9.7 billion in September but remains at $5.66 trillion, according to the latest U.S. Treasury figures.
The net worth tax is the cornerstone of Trump's economic plan released Tuesday morning.
"No one has put forward a plan to make this country entirely debt free as we enter the next millenium," Trump said in a written statement.
"The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac," Trump said.
Trump would exempt the value of an individual's principal home from the net worth total.
"By my calculations, 1 percent of Americans, who control 90 percent of the wealth in this country, would be affected by my plan," Trump said.
"The other 99 percent of the people would get deep reductions in their federal income taxes," he said.
Eliminating the national debt would save the federal government $200 billion a year in interest payments, Trump said. He proposes to earmark half the savings for middle class tax cuts, and the other half for Social Security.
Trump said depositing $100 billion annually in the Social Security trust fund would generate $3 trillion "over the next 30-years, when the trust fund is scheduled to go broke" and instead keep the fund "solvent through the next century."
The tax also would lead to the repeal the current federal inheritance tax "which really hurts farmers and small businessman and women more than anything else," Trump said.
Trump, whose own net worth is an estimated $5 billion, says the wealthy would not suffer if his economic plan were enacted.
"Personally this plan would cost me hundreds of millions of dollars, but in all honesty, it's worth it," Trump said.
Trump predicts his debt elimination combined with his tax cuts would trigger a 35 to 40 percent boost in economic activity, with more business start-ups, more jobs, and more prosperity.
"It is a win-win for the American people, an idea no conventional politician would have the guts to put forward," Trump said.
Last month, Trump formed a committee to explore seeking the presidential nomination of the Reform Party, which will automatically be on the ballot in 21 states next year.
At the end of the day, there is obviously some tapping into a very real fear that people have regarding immigrants. Nobody is going to say this but for a lot of people they don't want to be around people who don't share the same customs and values as them, don't speak the language, have kids running around everywhere and refuse to assimilate. When you get ethnic and cultural clashing in a short amount of time, it's going to create a lot of that xenophobia so to speak. I would venture to guess most of the blowback in threads like this has more to do with these issues than issues regarding drug trafficking or other crime.
As far as economics goes and immigration's net-positive effect, there is the issue of what's great for the free market isn't necessarily as great for some members of society. Wage stagnation, job displacement etc
Good idea by Trump. Here's another. Hope he revives both:
[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif][h=2]Trump proposes massive one-time tax on the rich[/h][h=4]By Phil Hirschkorn/CNN[/h][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]November 9, 1999
Web posted at: 6:24 p.m. EST (2324 GMT)[/FONT]
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has a plan to pay off the national debt, grant a middle class a tax cut, and keep Social Security afloat: tax rich people like himself.
Trump, a prospective candidate for the Reform Party presidential nomination, is proposing a one-time "net worth tax" on individuals and trusts worth $10 million or more.
By Trump's calculations, his proposed 14.25 percent levy on such net worth would raise $5.7 trillion and wipe out the debt in one full swoop.
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The U.S. national debt decreased by $9.7 billion in September but remains at $5.66 trillion, according to the latest U.S. Treasury figures.
The net worth tax is the cornerstone of Trump's economic plan released Tuesday morning.
"No one has put forward a plan to make this country entirely debt free as we enter the next millenium," Trump said in a written statement.
"The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac," Trump said.
Trump would exempt the value of an individual's principal home from the net worth total.
"By my calculations, 1 percent of Americans, who control 90 percent of the wealth in this country, would be affected by my plan," Trump said.
"The other 99 percent of the people would get deep reductions in their federal income taxes," he said.
Eliminating the national debt would save the federal government $200 billion a year in interest payments, Trump said. He proposes to earmark half the savings for middle class tax cuts, and the other half for Social Security.
Trump said depositing $100 billion annually in the Social Security trust fund would generate $3 trillion "over the next 30-years, when the trust fund is scheduled to go broke" and instead keep the fund "solvent through the next century."
The tax also would lead to the repeal the current federal inheritance tax "which really hurts farmers and small businessman and women more than anything else," Trump said.
Trump, whose own net worth is an estimated $5 billion, says the wealthy would not suffer if his economic plan were enacted.
"Personally this plan would cost me hundreds of millions of dollars, but in all honesty, it's worth it," Trump said.
Trump predicts his debt elimination combined with his tax cuts would trigger a 35 to 40 percent boost in economic activity, with more business start-ups, more jobs, and more prosperity.
"It is a win-win for the American people, an idea no conventional politician would have the guts to put forward," Trump said.
Last month, Trump formed a committee to explore seeking the presidential nomination of the Reform Party, which will automatically be on the ballot in 21 states next year.
WTF?.....that is not even remotely close to being accurate....
That article was probably written 15-20 years ago....
Ridiculous.......
In his latest interview he seemed to be more in line with Rand Paul. Raising taxes on the rich isn't a good idea to me. Simplifying the tax code is the way to go. Rand's flat 14.5% on everyone while eliminating nearly all deductions is the way to go. The Rich get out of taxes is a result of the tax code being too complicated, not because taxes aren't hight enough.
On Mexico and immigration, just about everything he said was inaccurate.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/heres-a-fact-check-of-donald-trumps-mexico-bashing-5754639
