August 17, 2015
"Make America Great Again" Several could do it, but..........
How?? What ever it takes. Political correctness be hanged.
Much like Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt,
Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan.
Take a
little time to read what he has stated to be his
platform.....Upon receiving this I researched it
to see if it was factual. It is.
1.) Trump
believes that America should not intervene
militarily in other country’s problems without
being compensated for doing so. If America is
going to risk the lives of our soldiers and incur
the expense of going to war, then the nations we
help must be willing to pay for our help. Using
the Iraq War as an example, he cites the huge
monetary expense to American taxpayers (over $1.5
trillion, and possibly much more depending on what
sources are used to determine the cost) in
addition to the cost in human life. He suggests
that Iraq should have been required to give us
enough of their oil to pay for the expenses we
incurred. He includes in those expenses the
medical costs for our military and $5 million for
each family that lost a loved one in the war and
$2 million for each family of soldiers who
received severe injuries.
2.)
Speaking of the military, Trump wants America to
have a strong military again. He believes the
single most important function of the federal
government is national defense. He has said he
wants to find the General Patton or General
MacArthur that could lead our military buildup
back to the strength it needs to be. While he
hasn’t said it directly that I know of, Trump’s
attitude about America and about winning tells me
he’d most likely be quick to eliminate rules of
engagement that handicap our military in battle.
Clearly Trump is a “win at all costs” kind of guy,
and I’m sure that would apply to our national
defense and security, too.
3.) Trump
wants a strong foreign policy and believes that it
must include 7 core principles (which seem to
support my comment in the last point):
American
interests come first. Always. No apologies.
Maximum
firepower and military preparedness
Only go to
war to win.
Stay loyal
to your friends and suspicious of your enemies.
Keep the
technological sword razor sharp.
See the
unseen. Prepare for threats before they
materialize.
Respect
and support our present and past warriors.
4.) Trump
believes that terrorists who are captured should
be treated as military combatants, not as
criminals like the Obama administration treats
them.
5.) Trump
makes the point that China’s manipulation of their
currency has given them unfair advantage in our
trade dealings with them. He says we must tax
their imports to offset their currency
manipulation, which will cause American companies
to be competitive again and drive manufacturing
back to America and create jobs here. Although he
sees China as the biggest offender, he believes
that America should protect itself from all
foreign efforts to take our jobs and
manufacturing. For example, Ford is building a
plant in Mexico and Trump suggests that every part
or vehicle Ford makes in Mexico be taxed 35% if
they want to bring it into the U. S., which would
cause companies like Ford to no longer be
competitive using their Mexican operations and
move manufacturing back to the U. S., once again
creating jobs here.
6.) Trump
wants passage of NOPEC legislation (No Oil
Producing and Exporting Cartels Act – NOPEC –
S.394), which would allow the government to sue
OPEC for violating antitrust laws. According to
Trump, that would break up the cartel. He also
wants to unleash our energy companies to drill
domestically (sound like Sarah Palin’s drill baby,
drill?) thereby increasing domestic production
creating jobs and driving domestic costs of oil
and gas down while reducing dependence on foreign
oil.
7.) Trump
believes a secure border is critical for both
security and prosperity in America. He wants to
build a wall to stop illegals from entering and
put controls on immigration. (And he says he’ll
get Mexico to pay for the wall, which many have
scoffed at, but given his business successes I
wouldn’t put it past him.) He also wants to
enforce our immigration laws and provide no path
to citizenship for illegals.
8.) Trump
wants a radical change to the tax system to not
only make it better for average Americans, but
also to encourage businesses to stay here and
foreign businesses to move here. The resulting
influx of money to our nation would do wonders for
our economy. He wants to make America the place
to do business. He also wants to lower the death
tax and the taxes on capital gains and dividends.
This would put more than $1.6 trillion back into
the economy and help rebuild the 1.5 million jobs
we’ve lost to the current tax system. He also
wants to charge companies who outsource jobs
overseas a 20% tax, but for those willing to move
jobs back to America they would not be taxed. And
for citizens he has a tax plan that would allow
Americans to keep more of what they earn and spark
economic growth. He wants to change the personal
income tax to:
Up to
$30,000 taxed at 1%
From
$30,000 to $100,000 taxed at 5%
From
$100,000 to $1,000,000 taxed at 10%
$1,000,000
and above taxed at 15%
9.) Trump
wants Obamacare repealed. He says it’s a
“job-killing, health care-destroying monstrosity”
that “can’t be reformed, salvaged, or fixed.” He
believes in allowing real competition in the
health insurance marketplace to allow competition
to drive prices down. He also believes in tort
reform to get rid of defensive medicine and lower
costs.
10.)
Trump wants spending reforms in Washington,
acknowledging that America spends far more than it
receives in revenue. He has said he believes that
if we don’t stop increasing the national debt once
it hits $24 trillion it will be impossible to save
this country.
11.) Even
though he says we need to cut spending, he does
not want to harm those on Medicare, Medicaid, or
Social Security. He believes that the citizens
have faithfully paid in to the system to have
these services available and that the American
government has an obligation to fulfill its end of
the bargain and provide those benefits.
Therefore, he wants to build the economy up so
that we have the revenue to pay those costs
without cutting the benefits to the recipients.
He disagrees with Democrats who think raising
taxes is the answer and says that when you do that
you stifle the economy. On the other hand, when
you lower taxes and create an environment to help
businesses they will grow, hire more workers, and
those new workers will be paying taxes that become
more tax revenue for the government.
12.)
Trump also wants reform of the welfare state
saying that America needs “a safety net, not a
hammock.” He believes in a welfare to work
program that would help reduce the welfare roles
and encourage people to get back to work. And he
wants a crackdown on entitlement fraud.
13.) Trump
believes climate change is a hoax.
I'll send more of his positions on issues as I complete the research.
I'll send more of his positions on issues as I complete the research.
Until next time.
John Porter
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