Trump’s only consistent position on taxes is that he won’t release returns

Posted by | May 9, 2016 11:52 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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Policy is always variable with him, but stonewalling isn’t.

In a move sure to strike terror into the heart of the Republican donor class, Donald Trump said this weekend he’d be willing to raise taxes on the wealthy. Then again, maybe nobody really cares, because last fall he said he’d lower taxes for everyone.

“For the wealthy, I think, frankly, it’s going to go up,” he said on ABC’s This Week. “When it comes time to negotiate, I feel less concerned with the rich than I do with the middle class.”

In September, Reuters notes, Trump released a tax proposal that included reducing the highest income tax rate to 25 percent from 39.6 percent. When asked what precipitated the change, Trump said the original proposal was “a concept.”

It seems that one of the only consistent positions Trump has held is his unwillingness to release his tax returns, citing once more an Internal Revenue Service audit that prevents him from making his returns public. (This is an imaginary problem. The IRS has said, “Nothing prevents individuals from sharing their own tax information.”)

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11 responses to Trump’s only consistent position on taxes is that he won’t release returns

  1. robert May 9th, 2016 at 13:01

    His auditors wont allow them to be released There is a consistent problem hiding #s They need more time

    • clemans May 9th, 2016 at 13:29

      he can release them any time he wants to. I think he is overwhelmed by debt and is hiding that from his supporters.

      • robert May 9th, 2016 at 13:33

        According to the trumpster (see the above) less my input

      • granpa.usthai May 9th, 2016 at 13:34

        why hide something you

        “LOVE”?

    • clemans May 9th, 2016 at 15:09

      nobody tells the donald what to do……. do they?

    • bpollen May 10th, 2016 at 05:29

      Those books don’t cook themselves!

      • robert May 10th, 2016 at 06:57

        but they can be held hostage.

  2. Suzanne McFly May 9th, 2016 at 13:21

    He makes his policies as he goes along. He gets brush back for statements he makes, so he changes his position. Who considers this a strong and reasonable leader is beyond me and I blame the lack of funding in our education system.

  3. granpa.usthai May 9th, 2016 at 13:32

    gee, I wonder why none of this is being picked up by the ‘liberal lamestream leftist commie media’ that’s owned by the RWNJ’s?

    perhaps the golden mike master who knows NOTHING about everything will bring this to the front burner? -or the neo-nazi by the bay?

    how the hell else do they expect REAL Americans to know how bad the economy has been under POTUS Obama if there are no records to go on?

    to trumpies: NO RECORDS = NO VOTE !!!

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