Trump’s debt plan unconstitutional

Posted by | May 9, 2016 09:02 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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Donald Trump said Friday he’d have no problem not paying back our debt so he could then “make a deal.” But that’s not how it works constitutionally.

During the fight over the debt ceiling, many legal experts raised a strong argument that the debt ceiling itself is unconstitutional. The Fourteenth Amendment provides that “the validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.” This provision raised serious questions about whether an act of Congress such as the debt ceiling could prevent our debts from being paid.

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33 responses to Trump’s debt plan unconstitutional

  1. Buford2k11 May 9th, 2016 at 09:21

    Pretty much everything that Trump stands for is unconstitutional…

  2. Mensa Member May 9th, 2016 at 09:39

    Trump came out even richer after his bankruptcies.

    So, he thinks he’ll do the same when he bankrupts America. .

    • whatthe46 May 9th, 2016 at 09:46

      He’s a scammer, a fraud and he’s tarded.

      • Mensa Member May 9th, 2016 at 09:48

        The jumpsuit will nicely match the spray tan and hair.

        • granpa.usthai May 9th, 2016 at 14:26

          the only thing I can possibly think of that would make baby don don’s toupee look half ass acceptable would be Sara at his side.

    • clemans May 9th, 2016 at 11:37

      we don’t really know that though, all we have to prove how rich he is ……his big mouth and ego. I think he hasn’t released his taxes yet because he isn’t as rich as he claims. He would be rich to me, but he is most likely highly in debt. Living on more money that he had to spend is what led him to bankruptcy as many times as he was there already.

      I also think he wants to be president so he can profit from it in as many ways as possible to buy himself out of the debt I suspect he is in. I don’t see him turning over his businesses so he can serve the nation.

      • granpa.usthai May 9th, 2016 at 14:25

        he won’t release his TAX Records because they will show how much he gets back in bogus write-offs (most likely even more than what is recorded as being paid in).

        It’s what I call the rich people’s WELFARE SCAM.

        Which is why I favor our government doing the same thing the Swiss Government does for their citizens who have offshore bank accounts.

  3. Obewon May 9th, 2016 at 09:51

    What repub wouldn’t know Lincoln’s 14th Amendment? A: “All of em” don’t know ‘the Public Debt shall not be questioned’ via Section 4.

    “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.” https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv

    • Larry Schmitt May 9th, 2016 at 10:52

      He figures he can run the country the same way he runs his companies, and bilk the American citizens and other countries who lend to us the same way he bilked his investors. It don’t work that way, Donny. Even threaten to do that, and you’ll never be able to borrow again without paying shylock rates. It’s like payday loans for countries. The ass is totally clueless.

    • William May 9th, 2016 at 11:39

      Are you saying Trump is unfamiliar with Lincoln or the post civil war 14 amendment effort?

      • StoneyCurtisll May 9th, 2016 at 12:29

        The same rambling incoherent sentence structure that Sarah Palin would use..

        • clemans May 9th, 2016 at 13:18

          I once made the comment that bush wasn’t very smart and a bush supporter replied well he has a college degree from a well known college so he must be smart.

          Do parents of rich kids buy degrees?

          • granpa.usthai May 9th, 2016 at 14:16

            yep. -goes with the ‘grants’ / tax write off contributions, etc.

        • William May 9th, 2016 at 14:13

          I think they have the same teleprompter. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4aaaf78a8f482d6763c86d58f916ba90cb1abd0d74607193f14c4ecdfa61c5c8.jpg

          • granpa.usthai May 9th, 2016 at 14:20

            only Sara’s is blurred by drinking and squished in with drippings from BIG big macs in her hand.

          • StoneyCurtisll May 9th, 2016 at 14:22

            I see a message….

            • bpollen May 9th, 2016 at 16:36

              “This soup sucks!”
              “Help, I’m stuck in an alphabet noodle factory!”
              “We have always been at war with East Asia.”

              The possibilities are endless.

      • whatthe46 May 9th, 2016 at 12:46

        Dying laughing.

      • fahvel May 9th, 2016 at 13:33

        my awareness of american history is pretty good and all I can say here is, “huh?”

      • granpa.usthai May 9th, 2016 at 14:15

        Lincoln’s success was due in part because he was not a ‘secret Muslim’ that owned property in Dubai.

  4. Budda May 9th, 2016 at 11:23

    Trump (and his followers) really have no idea how things work at the government level.

    • KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker May 9th, 2016 at 13:41

      You’ve got that right.

    • granpa.usthai May 9th, 2016 at 14:11

      shouldn’t be much different than a trump business.
      do what you’re told or
      YOU’RE FIRED!

      kinda like the Generals with ACTUAL COMBAT Experience who didn’t agree with Rumsfeld’s expert classroom assumption of the Iraqi cakewalk.

  5. Jimmy Fleck May 9th, 2016 at 11:41

    It seems to me that the world economy is really at the mercy of the United States. All the US would have to do is threaten to pay back all of its debt immediately by simply issuing enough dollars to cover its debt. This would lead to huge inflation, the destruction of the dollar and make all of the debts paid by America essentially worthless. The other countries would lose their biggest buyer of their products and the economies of China and Europe would tank right along with the United States. And the threat only grows worse each year as our debt level continues to grow. At some point, a country is going to decide that the US is no longer the safest place to invest and things will come to point. I don’t see this ending well for the world economy when that happens.

    • granpa.usthai May 9th, 2016 at 14:00

      Asia, South America, Europe, Africa, Canada, Mexico and central America (plus tiny Pacific Island Governments can and do function with little to no input from the 2.8% population of the world. If for some reason the leaders of the nations capable were to opt to ‘smoke US overnight’ (ref: Revelations Chapter 18 -if you’re into biblical prophecy) those who make a living off of trading with US would surely be weeping far out at sea, but the remaining 97.2% of the world’s population will continue onward. At some point and time, probably when we become a threat to the other profits China makes worldwide – that day will no doubt come.

    • SteveD May 10th, 2016 at 13:20

      In 1980 the national “debt” was $800 billion, today it’s over $19 trillion.We’ve added more than $18 trillion in debt.

      What happened? The economy grew from $6 trillion in output (GDP) to nearly $17 trillion. That’s 170%, in real dollars, adjusted for inflation.

      The federal debt could be paid off tomorrow by the Fed simply transferring already existing dollars (bonds, same thing) over to the same debt holders’ checking account, where those dollars can remain or be invested elsewhere. This moving dollars transfer is all that is involved to pay off federal debt. In fact, we’ve already paid off over $52 TRILLION this year.

      source: https://www.fms.treas.gov/fmsweb/viewDTSFiles?dir=w&fname=16050600.txt

      The above process transacts trillions of dollars per month, always within the govt’s acceptable range of inflation.. No money is “printed” that wasn’t already “printed” before. You do know that the United States government is the monopolist issuer of the currency?

      • Ian May 11th, 2016 at 14:23

        And people still think the “National Debt” is unsustainable.

  6. robert May 9th, 2016 at 12:57

    It works with TV game shows Donald and you would make a great host

  7. jybarz May 9th, 2016 at 18:35

    Can someone please hand him the book:
    “Governing for Dummies”

  8. Roctuna May 9th, 2016 at 18:43

    Like he cares? He’s already denied saying it, even though, as usual, it’s recorded. He’ll just continue tossing salad and lying

  9. amersham46 May 9th, 2016 at 23:58

    Unconstitutional ? that does not seem to matter much to many of the laws being passed in red states

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