Trump: Corporate, Middle Income Taxes Too High, ‘I Was Only Kidding’ On Hedge Funders Paying Up

[Formerly Once-Ler]

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/09/14/trump-corporate-middle-income-taxes-too-high-i-was-only-kidding-on-hedge-funders-paying-up/

Video at link.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that “Corporations paying far too much, far too much. Middle income people are being decimated” and “I was only kidding” in reference to a prior statement that “hedge fund guys are going to pay up” at a speech in Dallas, TX on Monday.

Trump said, “I have a friend in the hedge fund business — not really a friend, not actually a nice guy, but he’d be good representing us, I will tell you, because, by the time I finish, he might not have much of a hedge fund left. But I said, ‘What did you make last year?’ He said ‘About 250 million.’ This is serious, I said, ‘Oh, that’s a lot of money. What did you pay in taxes?’ He goes, ‘Don, practically nothing.’ That was a couple of years ago. I never forgot it. The other day he calls me up because he hears me talking about hedge fund guys are going to pay up. And he calls me up the other day. I was only kidding, you know, when I said that, I was sort of — he doesn’t know what to do. The truth is they’ll do just fine. They’re going to do just fine, because we’re going to make the country so successful, they’ll do just fine. They’ll end up doing better. They’ll end up doing better. But we’ve got to lower taxes for a lot of people. Corporations paying far too much, far too much. Middle income people are being decimated. They’re being decimated.”

He continued, “I mean, we have a group of 200 guys, but, the middle income in this country is being decimated, and we’re going to change it. We’re going to change it. So, I’ll be announcing, over the next three or so weeks, I’ll be announcing, I think a great tax plan. I know the tax code. I know everything about it, probably as well as anybody there is, right? And we’re going to be doing something that’s going to be really pro-growth, really reduction in taxes. We’re going to get the $2.5 trillion that’s in other countries, we’re going to get it back. They can’t — no, we’re going to get it back. And you know, you have corporate inversion. Does anybody know what that means? You know, in the old days people might leave New York for Texas, or they may go from New Jersey to Florida, or whatever. it’s not that way anymore. Now they go from this country to other countries. And they go for two reasons, lower taxes, lower labor, but lower taxes. You have countries that want to charge them nothing, so they take these companies, and these guys, they make a fortune. They have no real loyalty, in many cases, they have no real loyalty to the United States. They want to show a good profit and loss statement. So take, and they go to another country, and all of a sudden their numbers look good. And they can’t bring their money back in. And by the way, for two-and-a-half, three years I’ve seen — every politician agrees that we should lower the tax on bringing money ,because it’s so onerous that nobody in this room would bring that money back. Everybody says it. For two and a half years the Democrats, the Republicans, the liberals, the conservatives, everybody. They can’t make a deal. We have a government that’s really messed up because we don’t have a leader at the top. A right leader could get it done.”

Comedian Trump strikes again.[rimshot]

[bkepley]

And you Trumpsters are going to vote for this disaster?

[olde north church]

Some of the GOP is so uptight you couldn't get a needle up their ass with a jackhammer.

[aligncare]

And you Trumpsters are going to vote for this disaster?

Not sure about the primary, but in the general? DAMN STRAIGHT!

[Longiron]

Not sure about the primary, but in the general? DAMN STRAIGHT!

Dam, dammm straight the Trumpster in 2016. Only one who can clean up this mess! To the 6-7 same old anti trump posters on here you can come along for the ride and sit in the back or get out of the way . Sound familiar?

[kevindavis007]

Flip flop

[DCPatriot]

And you Trumpsters are going to vote for this disaster?

Rather be called a "Trumpster" or "Trumpazoid" than a......whatever the hell you are.   

[olde north church]

It's unfortunate I'm not advising him, then they would really describe him as elitist.  Tax the poor a little because there are more of them.  The wealthy provide employment, isn't that enough?

[NavyCanDo]

What's the use?  At this point Trump can do the ultimate flip-flop and appear on the cover of Vanity Fair in a one piece bathing suit, long blond hair and a size 38 bust and Trumpsters here will say that's perfectly fine with them. 

[DCPatriot]

What's the use?  At this point Trump can do the ultimate flip-flop and appear on the cover of Vanity Fair in a one piece bathing suit, long blond hair and a size 38 bust and Trumpsters here will say that's perfectly fine with them.

That's correct, sir.   Am THAT pi$$ed off.   I'm done with the GOPe.

[olde north church]

That's correct, sir.   Am THAT pi$$ed off.   I'm done with the GOPe.

Considering the GOP-E plans to put "Operation Hummingbird" into effect @ the Reagan Library debates.  The ultimate irony.  "Operation Hummingbird", somebody has been watching too many old "Hogan's Heroes" shows.

[bkepley]

Considering the GOP-E plans to put "Operation Hummingbird" into effect @ the Reagan Library debates.  The ultimate irony.  "Operation Hummingbird", somebody has been watching too many old "Hogan's Heroes" shows.

Yes...somebody has been watching too much "Hogans Heros".

[Godzilla]

That's correct, sir.   Am THAT pi$$ed off.   I'm done with the GOPe.

If you are done with the GOP, please take yourself off the voter registration rolls.

[sinkspur]

That's correct, sir.   Am THAT pi$$ed off.   I'm done with the GOPe.

You have lost your mind. Not about the GOPe, but about trailing behind this charlatan Trump.

[DCPatriot]

If you are done with the GOP, please take yourself off the voter registration rolls.

KMA!     Didn't say I was done with the GOP. 

[DCPatriot]

You have lost your mind. Not about the GOPe, but about trailing behind this charlatan Trump.

Tired of backing losers, Sink!  Tired of candidates like Dole, McCain and Romney.  There isn't six inches totaling among them.

As I said, confident that a GOP controlled House and Senate will temper Trump's behavior.   The country needs a breath of fresh air after 8 years of Obama.

[sinkspur]

Tired of backing losers, Sink!  Tired of candidates like Dole, McCain and Romney.  There isn't six inches totaling among them.

As I said, confident that a GOP controlled House and Senate will temper Trump's behavior.   The country needs a breath of fresh air after 8 years of Obama.

Four years of Trump would make America swear off the GOP in the White House for a generation.  He's a bully, and he would slam the GOP Congress for not going along with him.

The only temper to Trump is to keep him out of the White House.

[Scottftlc]

Four years of Trump would make America swear off the GOP in the White House for a generation.  He's a bully, and he would slam the GOP Congress for not going along with him.

The only temper to Trump is to keep him out of the White House.

If you run someone as dull as dirt you've lost before you've begun.  If you are OK with 16 years of progressive socialists that hate what used to be America...then run yet another cadaver.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Tired of backing losers, Sink!  Tired of candidates like Dole, McCain and Romney.  There isn't six inches totaling among them.

As I said, confident that a GOP controlled House and Senate will temper Trump's behavior.   The country needs a breath of fresh air after 8 years of Obama.

So we're going to elect Trump, the unpredictable wildcat outsider because we detest the spineless, gutless GOPe that's been in control of the House and Senate these past few years, with the hope that once he's in office he will be controlled (tempered) by that very same spineless, gutless GOPe that everyone detests.

Makes all the sense in the world to me.

[Oceander]

Not sure about the primary, but in the general? DAMN STRAIGHT!

Well Obviously.

I dislike Mr. Trump as a candidate immensely, but if by hook or by crook he is the GOP nominee in the general election, then I shall vote for him, if for no other reason than that I'm voting against the criminal, I mean Hillary Clinton (or whatever POS the DNC runs).

[Oceander]

So we're going to elect Trump, the unpredictable wildcat outsider because we detest the spineless, gutless GOPe that's been in control of the House and Senate these past few years, with the hope that once he's in office he will be controlled (tempered) by that very same spineless, gutless GOPe that everyone detests.

Makes all the sense in the world to me.

[DCPatriot]

So we're going to elect Trump, the unpredictable wildcat outsider because we detest the spineless, gutless GOPe that's been in control of the House and Senate these past few years, with the hope that once he's in office he will be controlled (tempered) by that very same spineless, gutless GOPe that everyone detests.

Makes all the sense in the world to me.

About damned time you returned.  We've all missed you, Luis.

One thing you're obviously forgetting.   Mr. Trump is not African-American.  The GOP Congress will not be afraid of opposing him as they are with Obama, and may be able to override any veto.

They won't put up with a president with a pen and a phone who is white.  Especially one that is essentially a Democrat.

[DCPatriot]

If you run someone as dull as dirt you've lost before you've begun.  If you are OK with 16 years of progressive socialists that hate what used to be America...then run yet another cadaver.

Amen, Scott.   

[DCPatriot]

[DCPatriot]

If you are done with the GOP, please take yourself off the voter registration rolls.

If people would step back and open their eyes...take your noses off the bark, you'd see what's happening.

The Democrat Party has become Stalinist/Socialist.  Proof lies in the popularity of Bernie Sanders with the Millennials.

....while the Republican Establishment has become liberal.

Back in 2007-2008, I wrote in here that Conservatives were going to become the German Jew in America....in terms of image to the average American.

It happened.

Donald Trump may well be more 'Democrat' than Republican.  However, he's not today's Democrat.  At worst, he's a JFK Democrat...who couldn't get elected in todays RAT Party.

My focus is to see a cork put in breech before my last breath.   At least I will die will a smile on my face.