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Clinton attacks Trump's economic proposal

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How can anyone be trusted to suggest tax policy when they won't release their own tax records?

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Why should he, it's not required. It is transparency and he has offered to release them when Hillary releases her Wall Street speech transcripts and she'll never do that.

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How can anyone consider voting for her? She tells whoppers bigger than Burger King makes.

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“Don’t let a friend vote Trump.”

Call 1 (800) 273-TALK.

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Clinton attacks Trump's economic proposal

And Clinton's promise of 8 more years of historically abysmal 2% growth and another $10 trillion in debt is a good thing? Things have gotten pretty damn grim.

It is transparency and he has offered to release them when Hillary releases her Wall Street speech transcripts and she'll never do that.

Not to mention the missing 30,000 emails. Perhaps Assange can find her speeches and the missing e-mails for her.

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“His tax plans would give super big tax breaks to large corporations and the really wealthy,” Clinton said.

Show us ANY president (republican or democrat), that has actually made big corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share?

"Don't let a friend vote Trump"

I certainly won't vote for Trump, but not because of silly slogans like this, all my friends are welcome to vote for whoever they want wether I agree with them or not. I won't be voting for either of these two.

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This is interesting: "Wash Post: Clinton's job creaton efforts failed"

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Anti Trumpers....please tell us why Hillary? Is it the pathological lying? Or is it the ability to elude prosecution? Could it be the Clinton Foundation monies distribution? The senate influence for donations to the Clinton Foundation? The failure in the Middle East as Secratery of State? Russian reset? Hillary's private server and the wrecklessness associated with it?

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please tell us why Hillary?

Because a Trump presidency would be catastrophic.

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How so plasticmonkey? Truth please not the edited MSM BS.

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Why won't she release those Wall Street speech transcripts? What's she hiding?

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@MarkG, no need to ask someone named plasticmonkey when you can get testimony from the very top. Senator Susan Collins, GOP from Maine, has joined the anti Trump brigade listing three specific incidents that showed her Trump lacks temperament and self-control for the job. For every top politician from his own party that he loses, is Trump picking up new supporters elsewhere? Only one state politician went to Trump's rally in Green Bay last week because he is political kryptonite.

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What is the REQUIRED temperament? For those who think he'll push the nuclear button, think for yourself, not the media brainwash. He built his public fame with his phrase "you're fired". He continues the sarcasm in his run for president. Where are all the ex-Trump employees he displayed a lack of temperament?

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What is the REQUIRED temperament?

Not responding to every little criticism with a Twitter rant for one. He's very thin skinned, and his responds the way a child would. Watch his interviews, and tell me he sounds like an adult, let alone presidential. His response to Clinton's attack on his temperament:

"She's a very dishonest person. I have one of the great temperaments. I have a winning temperament. She has a bad temperament. She's weak."

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The media and political elite are panicked because they fear that Trump will disrupt the whoring and corruption that defines Washington.Those eager to defend the status quo worry that the gig is up. It very well could be.They realize what a terrible candidate Hillary is and in a twisted sense how much that is actually helping Trump get his message out.

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Trump is not getting much of any coherent message out. Muslim gold star parents bad, but in a good way! Bad Mexicans, you make good taco salad! Naughty Russians, come and help me hack my opponent's emails!

@MarkG, you are getting too literal with the word temperament. It is just a nice PC way for Susan Collins to tell her own party that the candidate this time around sucks balls and she will help him lose.

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MarkG

How so plasticmonkey?

• The president should not make fun of people with multiple sclerosis or any other disease. In fact, no human with any shred of decency could make fun of people with any disease. Drumpf did.

• The president should not condemn an entire group of people merely for their religious thoughts. Drumpf did with Muslims.

• The president should not condemn an entire nation of people. Drumpf did with Mexicans (the US's 3rd largest trading partner behind Canada (#1) and China (#2). Japan is #4 https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/toppartners.html).

• The president should not lie about easily verifiable facts. Drumpf did just yesterday with his so-called economic speech (http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/fact-checking-donald-trump-s-economic-speech-detroit-n625581)

• The president should not be so thin-skinned as to jump on people who disagree with him. Drumpf did. (Donald Trump has been defending the size of his hands - http://www.thewrap.com/why-donald-trump-sent-a-vanity-fair-editor-a-drawing-of-his-hands-audio/

And that's just his-euphemism-fingers. Imagine if it were using nuclear weapons against North Korea because Kim Jong-un called him a fast-food slurping fool.

Oh, wait. Kim loves Drumpf (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-trump-idUSKCN0YN35S) Never mind.

• But mostly, when someone with MS has to struggle with everything including insensitive, short-fingered vulgarians, they are the heroes and winners, not those who mock them.

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I can't imagine Trump fans really care much about his economic proposals. They rarely even mention his name.

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The media and political elite are panicked because they fear that Trump will disrupt the whoring and corruption that defines Washington.

Have you noticed that Trump doesn't actually attack the whoring and corruption that defines Washington? If he did, he would be ahead, because that's where Clinton is weak, as Sanders' massive popularity proved. You think it might be because he's not as self-funded as he claims and he receives just as much money from donors?

The majority of the country is panicked because they have no idea what Trump will do. Not even Trump knows judging by his offer to let Kasich make all domestic and foreign policy proposals as VP. But he's currently behind and seems to be losing interest, and that gives me hope.

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Is that an orange jumpsuit she's wearing in the photo?

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@MarkG

How so plasticmonkey? Truth please not the edited MSM BS.

OK, straight the the horse's 'wherever':

"Attention all hackers: You are hacking everything else so please hack Obama's college records (destroyed?) and check 'place of birth'"

"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,"

“O.K., well, he's there in a certain way,” (-- referring to Putin's involvement in Ukraine)

“I would bring back waterboarding and I'd bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding."

“This is the Trump theory on war. I’m really good at war. I love war, in a certain way.”

“When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.”

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MarkG: Why should he, it's not required. It is transparency and he has offered to release them when Hillary releases her Wall Street speech transcripts and she'll never do that.

But why would you work against your own interests like that? There's really no political partisanship in this. At the very least tax returns show any potential conflicts of interest. What do you get out of helping Trump keep you in the dark?

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Both candidates suck and a libertarian should be the president.

America is in a sad state for things to be down to a nutcase and a hardcore criminal.

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"a Trump presidency would be catastrophic"

No, but a Clinton one would be.

"Is that an orange jumpsuit she's wearing in the photo?"

She's getting ready for a stay at Gitmo.

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This is what Trump wants for his economic policy. He wants Americans to restart making clothes with actual sewing machines like it's a new industrial revolution happening all over again in the USA. He wants (for example) Levi's jeans to be continued to be sold at Walmart for around 20 bucks while the 100% pure bred non Muslim white American makes 60,000 dollars a year (that's about 30 dollars an hour NOT including benefits- compared to a buck an hour in China) toiling at their sewing machine making these Levi's. That is Trump's economic policy Can it work? Very simple to understand, but can it work? Can we trust an economic plan from a business person no sane investor would ever have anything do with. Do Republicans trust Trump with such a poor business track record of his own? If you would never let your own money come close to Trump then why would you want him for president in the first place?

NAFTA? That was started under GHWB.

For those who think he'll push the nuclear button He wants to on ISIS

Hillary releases her Wall Street speech transcripts I thought Republicans loved Wall Street. This sounds like a complaint from a Democrat 20 years ago. What party are you of, really?

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Since last election, each candidate is required to submit their tax return. If you want to read Wall Street Transcript, just Pay money to buy copy. It is copy'rotected. Not much content with jargon.

Trump released his economic plan and new CNN poll Hillary is 12 points higher than Trump Bush Jr said he support Trump.

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“You know that old saying: Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me,” she said.

Did she get that quote correct? I'd thought it was, "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice - can't be fooled again."

(Click for an 18-second trip down memory lane.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgPY1adc0A

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@toshiko, George P. Bush, one of the affectionately nicknamed 'little brown ones' by his granddad GHW Bush, is probably thinking that supporting Trump will pay off in a promotion to national office under Trump. Not helping himself in the land of Cruz though.

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Since last election, each candidate is required to submit their tax return.

Not true. "There is no law that says that a presidential candidate must release his or her individual tax returns to the public, but at least one member of Congress thinks there should be. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) has introduced a bill which would require presidential nominees to release recent tax returns."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2016/05/25/senate-bill-would-require-presidential-candidates-including-tax-to-release-tax-returns/#524eaa727b3f

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America is going to fold on debt, so they might a well do this.

$20 billion dollars creates 1.3 million jobs. Before they go bust they borrow $3 - $5 trillion and hand each state the interest. The states get the money and share it every 6 months.

50 states will share and self fund gov department's, that save the states the money. The money goes to creating jobs at $600 a week after taxes.

$80 billion off interest * 5 is $400 billion pa. Self funding a department will save them billions.

In 1 year $3.3 billion * 5 pa will be saved. That's an extra $17 billion pa, every year.

Each year they can hire 1.1 million people.

My system would higher 5.5 million people within 5 years.

America can really borrow $10 trillion dollars, hand it tot he states and fold. They could make 11 million jobs within 5 years, not even adding the extra $20 billion spent "pa" in the economy, adding 1 job to every $350k spent.

What you could say is at $5 trillion you would have 7 million new jobs made, adding an extra 1 job to $200k -$350k spent pa.

Creating 7 million jobs every 5 years why self funding department's for life, is massive.

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Make no mistake, Trump is running against the Washington insiders, the way things are now.

10 reasons Trump would make a better president than Hillary Wall Srteet Clinton:

Trump believes in American exceptionalism. Trump is tough, unafraid to flex America’s muscles, and has the backbone America needs to take on the evil growing around the world. Trump is an experienced and tough dealmaker. Trump is not politically correct; he’s not afraid to say what he believes and has ignited an honest debate. Trump demands high performance and will fire anyone that doesn’t meet his high standards. Trump is committed to education. Trump “built that business” and many more and will run America like a business. Trump will not balance his job as President with golf and other social events. Trump’s loyalty will be only to America and Americans—not any political party, special interest group or foreign entity. Trump will support American laws, the Constitution, and the nation’s borders.

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@serrano you can make logic but people are clueless.

Keep in-mind a repot years back proved how the CIA and them body's comment and dislike comment's on blogs.

Lot's of people in this world see a negative poll and say why, me 2 because numbers are the as bad.

No matter what you say that adds up or they can not reply to, shows how silly some people are.

Take my comment above yours. It shows how to half American jobless % within 5 years, and to make everyone have a job within 10 years. You still get votes down but no reply stating why. They can't say why it wouldn't work, and rather vote you down even if you make a good point.

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So Trump proposes cutting taxes to boost investment, job creation and therefore economic growth, and Clinton conversely believes that the best path is to raise taxes on the wealthy and have government spend on public works projects, and more educational opportunities.

Both are thoroughly flawed candidates, but I know which policy I'd vote for, were I a God Blessed American voter wanting to see economic growth.

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Trump believes in American exceptionalism. What is that? How does it work?

Trump is an experienced and tough dealmaker. How has his investors done? Compared to the investors of a real corporation and its chairman like Microsoft/Bill Gates? Would you invest your own money in a trump "Corporation"

he’s not afraid to say what he believes and has ignited an honest debate. Well, his hate speech is working well for the KKK type voters. And someone please remind me (again) what is the black voter percentage of Trump? How is Trump doing against Clinton generally?

Trump “built that business” and many more and will run America like a business. Like what? Casinos?

Trump’s loyalty will be only to America and Americans Do you like your cheap(er) iPhone?

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So Trump proposes cutting taxes to boost investment, job creation and therefore economic growth

Tried over and over and proven not to work. Look at Kansas as a recent example.

Clinton conversely believes that the best path is to raise taxes on the wealthy and have government spend on public works projects, and more educational opportunities.

Has not been tried nationwide in decades, the last time it was, it brought us out of depression.

Yup, the choice seems pretty simple.

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They already tried Trickle-Down Economics in the 1980s - it didn't work

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W Bush's side-supply economics failed even more spectacularly. Defying arithmetic for decades is how you get trillions of dollars worth of debt, "deficits don't matter" and all.

But that's the garden variety Republican voter. Doing things over and over and expecting different results. The very definition of insanity. And now they're not even trying to hide the crazy anymore since Donald Trump seized control of the Asylum.

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Trump's refusal to release his tax returns is no different from Romney. The information in their will be far more damaging than the flack for not releasing them.

Trump is massively in debt. Possibly to Vladimir Putin and his gangsters. As long as he fails to release them I guess we can all speculate at will. There's only one word to describe it and that's DEVIOUS.

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Trump demands high performance and will fire anyone that doesn’t meet his high standards.

Trump's performance on the campaign is anything but "high performance." He ought to fire himself. All of his wounds are self-inflicted. The New Republic is far more insightful:

Trump "gave the game away" during his economic speech. "GOP leaders will tolerate Trump so long as he promises huge tax cuts, and GOP voters will tolerate him so long as he's a bigot."

I wish Trump's supporters could be more honest and concerned about America, but if they were, they wouldn't be Trump supporters.

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Seriously, though, if you wanna see Trump's economic policy, check out Paul Ryan, 'cause it's not like Trump cares a whit about it. What Grover Norquist said a while back remains the unofficial but transparent GOP policy:

All we have to do is replace Obama. ... We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. ... We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it. ... Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States.

Trump has gone so far as to volunteer that he'd leave most of this "governing" stuff to his VP anyway. There is zero reason to pay attention to whatever emits from the Republican candidate's mouth regarding the economy.

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Hillary economic proposal likely is base on her connection to La Farge huge concert company which she was a Board member. Her huge public works project of building/ rebuilding roads and bridges would benefit key suppliers who also donate heavily to Clinton Foundation. While VP she maintain contacts with La Farge at the time when the company had direct dealings with ISIS which could explain heavily bombing of infrastructure without serious impact on ISIS.

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Trump has gone so far as to volunteer that he'd leave most of this "governing" stuff to his VP anyway.

Of course. Just like he runs his businesses, Trump needs someone to fire when things don't go right. Trump may end up as the president with the most VP's -- should the unthinkable happen. Trump may make "firing the VP" a new hit reality show.

The buck never stops with Donald Trump. He can't admit he screws up. A dangerous quality for anyone with power.

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This is interesting: "WSJ's Henninger: Trump's economic speech was 'excellent'"

( Fox News ) ( where else - CNN? ha ha )

Also this: "Worried about WikiLeaks? Hillary Clinton sold 20% of America's uranium to Russia and Vladimir Putin" ( Youtube uploader H.A. Goodman )

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Hillary economic proposal likely is base on her connection to La Farge huge concert company

Spot on, 25psot! Clinton's work on the board of directors of Lafarge from 1990 until 1992 likely involved her with some of the most decadent groups of that era. While the death of Kurt Cobain lessens the danger of any Nirvana involvement in her government, the sudden resurgence of Guns and Roses, coinciding as it does with her campaign, raises serious questions. I suggest a House of Representatives special commission (headed by Tipper Gore) get right on this.

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SerranoAUG. 09, 2016 - 10:49PM JST

This is interesting:

You keep saying that but it never is.

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Hillary economic proposal likely is base on her connection to La Farge huge concert company which she was a Board member. Her huge public works project of building/ rebuilding roads and bridges would benefit key suppliers who also donate heavily to Clinton Foundation. While VP she maintain contacts with La Farge at the time when the company had direct dealings with ISIS which could explain heavily bombing of infrastructure without serious impact on ISIS.

This would all be interesting except Hillary was VP until '92. 20 years before IS. There is plenty of dirt on HRC without making things up.

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SerranoAUG. 09, 2016 - 02:46PM JST

Trump is not politically correct; he’s not afraid to say what he believes...

He seems to believe he got a letter from the NFL which they never sent.

...and has ignited an honest debate.

Which he apparently doesn't want to take part in.

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Currently, higher income people pay 45% after deduction. There are low income people who don't pay tax, I think people who don't pay tax couldn't care less their tax rate goes down.

Trump needs to use people who know how to figure out numbers but he is surrounded by uneducated people who are his major supporters.

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So, when all is said and done, it looks like Trump is just a typical wealthy Republican after all:

Cut taxes for the rich. Skrew the little guy. Pocket the difference.

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cutting taxes to boost investment, job creation and therefore economic growth

Tried over and over and proven not to work. Look at Kansas as a recent example.

Unfortunately as a non-American I don't know much about Kansas, but economic packages including tax cuts invariably produced good results where I come from. Cutting taxes alone may not do the trick - best results are likely when coupled together with the elimination of useless regulations (which tend to pile up as the years go by) and elimination of wasteful government spending.

Clinton conversely believes that the best path is to raise taxes on the wealthy and have government spend on public works projects, and more educational opportunities.

Has not been tried nationwide in decades, the last time it was, it brought us out of depression.

That might have been a total fluke then. Japan has done 17 or so fiscal "stimulus" packages, spending money on public works projects, and there's been pathetic results to show for it.

Maybe the American central planners know far better than the Japanese central planners how to spend money to boost economic growth though.

I know which road I'd vote for.

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Me: "This is interesting:"

Simon: "You keep saying that but it never is".

Did you not watch the videos? Or does the truth bore you?

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Let me guess that as it's Fox, they're all broadly supportive of Trump and critical of Clinton? Right? I mean, you're not going to cite reports of Republicans turning against Trump and opting for Clinton, are you? So really, it's not all that interesting when I can guess what they're going to say.

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