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And Donald Trump is someone who speaks for who again?

This would be Donald Trump, the short-fingered vulgarian, the guy who still owes how many billions of dollars he will never pay to the banks who financed his Atlantic City disaster and other traumas, the guy who is just a figurehead in his own company, and a total fraud merchant? THAT Donald Trump? Yeah. We care what he thinks.

Trump: He’s a smart guy and I think he’s going to be a great president.

If he's a smart guy, then why can't he fucking understand the economy.

He basically admits right there in the interview that when he says "Obama will increase your taxes" he actually means "Obama will increase my taxes."

Kudos to King for catching him out in his lie.

The Obama plan calls for an immediate $1000 tax cut for middle families plus a $1000 energy rebate. Yet the talking point factoid that everyone uses is "Obama's plan will cut taxes for 95% of America." You see it repeated here.

Somehow Obama's plan to CUT TAXES AND PROVIDE REBATES WORTH $2000 isn't getting through the clutter.

Obama should totally own the title of tax cutter. Part of the reason he doesn't is because he doesn't SAY over and over he will cut your taxes one large and give a rebate one large. Here we have King repeating what Obama says over and over about the 95% which is a wussy, defensive, vague and unclear "message."

The first time I heard Obama say the figure $1000 was in his long, boring, 2 minute ad on the current crisis which brought in everything from negative campaigning to a new spirit of unity and shared responsibility blah blah blah....he's a master at "burying the lead."

Two thousand smackeroos. Ya think people know about that? That they believe it?

They don't.

Is anyone surprised Trump doesn't want his taxes raised? He's not Gates or Buffett who truly put country first.

Huh. Donald Trump... The Donald... doesn't want his millionaire taxes raised. And he doesn't give a shit how much it fucks up things for the rest of us. Who'd a thunk?

His endorsement of McCain comes as a complete shock to me. Truly.

Is anyone surprised Trump doesn't want his taxes raised? He's not Gates or Buffett who truly put country first.

trump just showed the US that he really doesn't care about the war, healthcare, jobs, education, or the economy. all he truly and only cares about is his money and being taxed for it.

Of course Larry King misstates Obama's tax-cutting pledge (as do Obama and Biden and their surrogates on many occasions).

The operative promise is tax cuts for 80% of the people, and 95% of "working families" ... which is generally unfavorable for singles, childless couples, empty-nesters, students, retirees, and a few others.

Note also that Obama's promise is infeasible with respect to restoring active government and deficit reduction, and with respect to top-share incomes ability to avoid taxation. The next POTUS - Obama or McCain or McKinney - is going to raise most people's taxes, or we're going deeper down the fiscal vortex.

On the whole, however, flamingbanjo @ 4 nails it. Trump means "my taxes".

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I believe the answer to your question would be, "rich white guys like myself".

And by "myself" I mean "Donald Trump".

they’re going to be taxed into oblivion

I hate when FILTHY rich people repeat that meme. Is Obama going to make the sky fall, too?

That does it -- if the Trumps and the Rothschilds are backing McCain, then I'm dumping that elitist Barack Obama!

i read that exchange & think: trump doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about, but won't let that stop him from talking anyway.

if ONLY obama could tax Trump into oblivion. non-existence is where i prefer Trump & everything he's touched.

So when can we expect to see the "that toupee'd asshole from the crappy reality show likes McCain so I'm voting for the other guy" bounce?

It's amazing Donald "Multiple Bankrupcies" Trump took the Republican tax-cut teat out of his mouth long enough to utter these words.

this is the closest to an informed question I've seen from Larry King, maybe ever.

So the incredibly wealthy should not be taxed because they create jobs for people (who are heavily taxed instead) and if the Feds tax at the front end there won't be any jobs made? HUH? What's wrong with this picture? It is of course a lie that if the Feds tax billion dollar corporations they won't create jobs, the fact is they will create jobs. They will create jobs because they want to make money.

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And because they actually CAN'T make money unless they pay people to make the things or perform the services the companies make money FROM.

@19, This is Randian bullshit in its purest form.

As for corporate tax cuts heres my take on it; the problem isn't at the federal level rather it's at the state level. Every state is competing with one another to attract large companies to set up shop in their state. What they wind up doing is subsidizing businesses through either tax cuts or straight cash to the businesses and under the political guise of "creating jobs". That money to provide these incentives has to come from somewhere and it isn't coming from the untaxed company in state borders or from employees income taxes.

What an elitist. The rich were taxed at something like 90% in the fifties, and that was a prosperous decade. It's lower class and middle class consumption that really drives job creation in this country, and the rich deliberately overemphasize their own role to try to prevent a tax hike that could, God forbid, prevent them from buying that $300,000 dollar watch this year.