Do You Trust Trump to Reform Taxes?

[dean.engelhardt]

Trump is touting his unrevealed tax reform plan. I have a list a reason not to trust him to lowers taxes:

1) He has flip flopped on nearly every foreign policy campaign promise.
2) He has big government spending plans; $1 trillion/year on defense; $1 trillion infrastructure; a wall that could run over $50 billion.
3) He is getting rid of many of his fiscal conservative from his staff and being advised by left leaning fiscal people.

 

[oyarde]

No , I really do not trust congress , senate or the pres to reform taxes . Since most tax plans I have read in the past ten years by various people really raise the amount of tax I would have pd .

 

[timosman]

Do you trust anybody?

 

[RonPaulMall]

The Trump aspect yes. I believe Trump does want to reduce taxes. Problem is the GOP Congressional leadership, which wants only "revenue neutral" cuts that simply shift the tax burden from corporations on to the middle class. Can Trump defeat the Swamp? Maybe, but odds are strongly in favor of the Swamp.

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

No...

 

[phill4paul]

Without significant budget cuts, taxes cannot be reformed. The beast must be fed. I do not see any significant budget cuts in the future, therefore, I do not see any tax reform.

 

[jkr]

nope

 

[Ender]

Do You Trust Trump to.....

Nope.

 

[acptulsa]

The Trump aspect yes. I believe Trump does want to reduce taxes. Problem is the GOP Congressional leadership, which wants only "revenue neutral" cuts that simply shift the tax burden from corporations on to the middle class. Can Trump defeat the Swamp? Maybe, but odds are strongly in favor of the Swamp.

So do you figure Trump wants less power and money to play with, or do you figure he wants to transfer the burden from us onto his hotels and his country clubs?

And have you seen one scrap of evidence to support this theory, or are you just maintaining this child-like faith because he said he wants to stem the influx of brown people?

 

[dannno]

I trusted Trump to reign in a lot of burdensome regulations, and while there is a long way to go significant progress has been made.

I trusted Trump to pick someone for the Supreme Court who believes in the original interpretation of the Constitution and he did pretty well there too.

I trusted Trump to at least say SOMETHING about Antifa/Alt-left when a major showdown happened at one of these protests and he went to bat at a tough time, took a lot of heat and eventually won that issue.

Foreign policy has been has been on the disappointing side, but I am not totally surprised at that. I still think we are much better off foreign policy wise than we would be with Hillary, and I think we are going in a much less globalist direction in general which is also a huge win. People who say everything would be the same with Hillary are wrong, IMO. Now is it enough to overcome our seemingly insurmountable debt and avoid a dollar crisis and economic collapse? I dunno.. but certainly if you only consider choice A and B, our country made the correct one.

 

[dannno]

So do you figure Trump wants less power and money to play with, or do you figure he wants to transfer the burden from us onto his hotels and his country clubs?

And have you seen one scrap of evidence to support this theory, or are you just maintaining this child-like faith because he said he wants to stem the influx of brown people?

I could care less about the wall, in fact if I had to choose I would vote 'no' on the wall. I admit there may be a positive outcome to building it, as opposed to the next most realistic option which is not building it and keeping our welfare state.. but I support Trump because I think he legitimately wants our country to become better. I don't agree with all of his tactics, but I don't think he is working against our country like the people who pull Hillary's strings. I think he is being pressured to work against our country very strongly, but I think he is legitimately trying hard to push back where he can.

 

[oyarde]

I would like to see spending cuts . Problem with tax reform is I really doubt they are bright enough to do it without screwing people .

 

[TheTexan]

Trump is a businessman and also a successful reality tv star, I would trust him with my life

 

[shakey1]

Has this ever worked before?

 

[Zippyjuan]

He didn't release any details this week but his proposals in the past would be beneficial to the very wealthy- people like Donald Trump. Don't expect any cuts for yourself.

Like his repeal replace Obamacare, he quit talking about any details and is leaving everything to Congress (well, Trump himself can't enact any tax reforms- Congress must write and pass the laws and then he gets the chance to sign the bill if he likes it). That way, failure is not his fault- he has somebody else he can blame it on. Tax reform is incredibly difficult to pass- every tax line has some special interest group who will resist it being changed. Getting enough of Congress to agree will be difficult. I predict no significant change. The "border tax" idea seems to be dead. Complaints are that corporate rates are too high yet corporations have so many deductions that many corporations actually pay little to no taxes. Individual tax cuts? About half of all income tax files owe no net taxes so would not get any tax cuts. If his initial ideas are adopted, the income gap will grow.

He did at one point say he wanted tax reform to be "revenue neutral"- ie not increase the debt. That means that tax cuts in one place must be off-set by higher taxes someplace else. Where would those higher taxes be if you cut taxes for corporations and the wealthy who pay 90% of all taxes?

 

[timosman]

Where would those higher taxes be if you cut taxes for corporations and the wealthy who pay 90% of all taxes?

He may cut funding for the online operations(forum trolling). This costs way too much given its lack of effectiveness.

 

[Zippyjuan]

He may cut funding for the online operations(forum trolling). This costs way too much given its lack of effectiveness.

So you will lose your job?

 

[bunklocoempire]

Theft reform.

Make theft great again.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Trump would probably sign anything passed through Congress and declare victory. Thus, this is a question of trusting Congress.

I trust Rand, Massie, Amash, Brat and several others could come up with something better than what we have today, but not the bought and paid for Congress as a whole.

We'll get some crony insider plan.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Here's a plan: abolish personal income tax.