New Ads in Iowa: Let's Face It, Trump's a Liberal

[bkepley]

Guy Benson
Townhall

The Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative advocacy group, comes out guns blazing today with a seven-figure, multi-platform ad buy against Donald Trump in Iowa. The much-anticipated TV spots are intended to expose Trump as a candidate who aligns with liberal Democrats on key issues, and who places his own self-interest over principle -- no different than your average craven politician. The group's political arm pulls no punches on its website, writing, "Club for Growth Action believes that Trump is the worst Republican candidate on economic issues—plain and simple. In fact, short of Bernie Sanders, he may be the most liberal candidate in the whole field on fiscal policy." Here are the two 30-second ads, featuring healthcare, taxes and eminent domain:
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This line of criticism hardly requires dredging up ancient history.  Trump defended socialized healthcare at the first GOP debate, praised President Obama's "stimulus" boondoggle, and recently recommended Obama-endorsed tax hikes on the rich, earning praise from Bernie Sanders, Warren Buffett and Paul Krugman.  His enthusiasm for big government's abuse of eminent domain laws, which strip individuals of property rights in pursuit of higher tax revenues, is another indication of Trump's Statist and cronyist impulses.   Donald Trump has preemptively assailed the Club for Growth as a "pack of thieves" -- echoing liberals' unflattering references to the "Club for Greed" -- and will certainly dismiss these policy critiques as establishment attacks funded by special interests and hedge fund managers.  The organization's defenders will counter that they've accumulated a stellar record of supporting conservative challengers over establishment-backed candidates, including Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio (Trump was a Charlie Crist guy in 2010, incidentally).

More here: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2015/09/15/club-for-growth-ads-lets-face-it-trumps-a-liberal-n2052604
 

[aligncare]

Warren Buffett, the billionaire, pays himself $50,000 a year in order to avoid the higher tax rate of 39.6% on personal income.

With the multiple mansions, jets and entire islands that Buffett owns, how does a billionaire live on $50,000 a year?

Simple, his investment income--probably in the hundreds of millions--is taxed at a paltry 12 percent. That's the tax loophole for CEOs and hedge fund managers that Trump wants to eliminate.

The IRS doesn't give me a break. So, I say go for it Donald!

If Club for Growth wants to call that liberal? Then call me liberal.

[DCPatriot]

NEWSFLASH!!!!!

I don't give a fig if Trump is like a Democrat.   Not when the alternative is an effing Marxist Socialist in either Clinton or Sanders.

And guess what?   Neither should you.

[Bigun]

Warren Buffett, the billionaire, pays himself $50,000 a year in order to avoid the higher tax rate of 39.6% on personal income.

With the multiple mansions, jets and entire islands that Buffett owns, how does a billionaire live on $50,000 a year?

Simple, his investment income--probably in the hundreds of millions--is taxed at a paltry 12 percent. That's the tax loophole for CEOs and hedge fund managers that Trump wants to eliminate.

The IRS doesn't give me a break. So, I say go for it Donald!

Which is EXACTLY why we should throw the entire Marxist income tax onto the ash heap of history and replace it with the Fairtax!

http://fairtax.org

[Longiron]

NEWSFLASH!!!!!

I don't give a fig if Trump is like a Democrat.   Not when the alternative is an effing Marxist Socialist in either Clinton or Sanders.

And guess what?   Neither should you.

When you have the RINOGOP giving NUKES to our enemy and 150 Billion to support attacks against this country and approve of selling of BABY parts to the highest bidder who cares about GOP or DEMS. One thing for sure is that it will be stopped under TRUMP and no one cares if he is the Martian Party??? Stick you party identity where the sun does not shine and get some results and start WINNING again. That will happen with TRUMP or CRUZ.

[aligncare]

When you have the RINOGOP giving NUKES to our enemy and 150 Billion to support attacks against this country and approve of selling of BABY parts to the highest bidder who cares about GOP or DEMS. One thing for sure is that it will be stopped under TRUMP and no one cares if he is the Martian Party??? Stick you party identity where the sun does not shine and get some results and start WINNING again. That will happen with TRUMP or CRUZ.

You totally get it, dude. 

[mystery-ak]

When you have the RINOGOP giving NUKES to our enemy and 150 Billion to support attacks against this country and approve of selling of BABY parts to the highest bidder who cares about GOP or DEMS. One thing for sure is that it will be stopped under TRUMP and no one cares if he is the Martian Party??? Stick you party identity where the sun does not shine and get some results and start WINNING again. That will happen with TRUMP or CRUZ.

[libertybele]

NEWSFLASH!!!!!

I don't give a fig if Trump is like a Democrat.   Not when the alternative is an effing Marxist Socialist in either Clinton or Sanders.

And guess what?   Neither should you.

I will say this.  Having experienced Bush as a governor and seeing and experiencing the negative impact of his liberal stance on illegal immigration, I can honestly say with great certainty, he will be a disaster for the sovereignty of this country.  I believe that Trump will lead this country in a positive direction.  The only candidate out there who would be more disastrous for this country than Bush is either Christie, Hillary or Sanders.

If we accept the label of Trump as a liberal than it would be only fitting to label Bush, Christie, Hillary, and Sanders as liberal progressive socialists.

[NavyCanDo]

NEWSFLASH!!!!!

I don't give a fig if Trump is like a Democrat.   Not when the alternative is an effing Marxist Socialist in either Clinton or Sanders.

That first sentence was enough to make me say WTH?   But you had to go on.  Its Trump against Clinton Sanders is it?   There is no other Republican candidate running, including two other "Outsiders"?   

[Godzilla]

That first sentence was enough to make me say WTH?   But you had to go on.  Its Trump against Clinton Sanders is it?   There is no other Republican candidate running, including two other "Outsiders"?

Of course!  Didn't you get their memo?  All GOP candidates are communist pig-dog swine, servants of the left.  If you are even a *REGISTERED* Republican (gasp!), you should be tarred and feathered, then run out of town on a rail.

Or burned at the stake for witchcraft!