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applegrove

(122,468 posts) Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:44 PM 2 hrs ago

If re-elected, Donald Trump said during a Fox News segment that the U.S. could potentially end all federal taxation and

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If re-elected, Donald Trump said during a Fox News segment that the U.S. could potentially end all federal taxation and return to the economic policies of the late 19th century. Trump has not said how that would work, and experts have dismissed his idea as mathematically impossible and economically destructive. NYTimes

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If re-elected, Donald Trump said during a Fox News segment that the U.S. could potentially end all federal taxation and (Original Post) applegrove 2 hrs ago OP

The Golden Age of robber barons. Of course he livetohike 2 hrs ago #1

What Are The Economic Policies Of The Late 19th Century?...... global1 2 hrs ago #2

Repeated twenty year cycles of banking panics Johonny 1 hr ago #10

A lot of poor people living in "poor houses" the rich kept getting richer and richer. kerry-is-my-prez 1 hr ago #11

And after trump dies Turbineguy 2 hrs ago #3

He could also stroke out on a golf course with a gut full of hamberders, too. marble falls 2 hrs ago #4

And Pepsi in the water fountains... ScratchCat 2 hrs ago #5

Has he thought of US Seniors on SS and little else? ProudMNDemocrat 2 hrs ago #6

Cool, now I can pay no federal tax just like tsf. chicoescuela 2 hrs ago #7

In essence, defund the Federal Government DFW 2 hrs ago #8

Wow check out that super-sexy article title, almost tabloid quality 0rganism 2 hrs ago #9

livetohike

(22,812 posts)

1. The Golden Age of robber barons. Of course he

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:52 PM

2 hrs ago

would want to return to that.

global1

(25,836 posts)

2. What Are The Economic Policies Of The Late 19th Century?......

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:52 PM

2 hrs ago

Can anyone enlighten me? What economic policies is he talking about?

Johonny

(21,815 posts)

10. Repeated twenty year cycles of banking panics

Reply to global1 (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 24, 2024, 03:14 PM

1 hr ago

kerry-is-my-prez

(8,932 posts)

11. A lot of poor people living in "poor houses" the rich kept getting richer and richer.

Reply to Johonny (Reply #10)

Thu Oct 24, 2024, 03:17 PM

1 hr ago

The rest of the other people were pretty much poor. Children were working in factories.

Turbineguy

(38,218 posts)

3. And after trump dies

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:53 PM

2 hrs ago

we can start all over.

Unless it's Mad Max.

marble falls

(61,465 posts)

4. He could also stroke out on a golf course with a gut full of hamberders, too.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:54 PM

2 hrs ago

ScratchCat

(2,363 posts)

5. And Pepsi in the water fountains...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:55 PM

2 hrs ago

and no homework!!!

ProudMNDemocrat

(18,778 posts)

6. Has he thought of US Seniors on SS and little else?

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:57 PM

2 hrs ago

I guess they will not matter. Go live with your kids! The kids won't have any money either!

Welcome back to the age of the Robber Barons with it all and crumbs of bread for the rest of us.

The Good News? It's only a dream that will not come true.

chicoescuela

(1,479 posts)

7. Cool, now I can pay no federal tax just like tsf.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:58 PM

2 hrs ago

What a shithead

DFW

(56,279 posts)

8. In essence, defund the Federal Government

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:58 PM

2 hrs ago

The next time Grand Fenwick invades the United States, they WILL win.

0rganism

(24,502 posts)

9. Wow check out that super-sexy article title, almost tabloid quality

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2024, 02:16 PM

2 hrs ago

"Trump Flirts With The Ultimate Tax Cut: No Taxes At All"
Who squeezed out that special turd of genuflection? Flirtatious AND Ultimate, together at last! Slides into the hippocampus like a porn-tainted fanfic. Betcha whoever came up with it was fully engorged at the time.

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