Donald Trump’s “Progressive” Tax Plan Perfectly Illustrates the Role His Candidacy is Designed to Perform: Get Jeb Elected

by Scott Creighton

“I’m not a populist,” Trump said. “No, I’m not. I’m a man of great common-sense.” That’s one way to put it. But judging by his supply-side (trickle down) tax proposal, conventional Republican is another. The Atlantic

Donald Trump (“The Donald”) has finally released his tax plan after much ado. He created a ton of free publicity for it by hinting at it’s content over the last few weeks with every opportunity he had. The Donald claimed it would make the folks on Wall Street “hate him” but that, sayeth The Donald, was OK because he’s a man of “common sense”, a man of the people.

Fact is, now that his plan has been released, the only real big winners in it are Big Business and the Super Wealthy… and of course, people like The Donald.

The big loser would be the government. His plan would bankrupt Uncle Sam like a Donald Trump run business in record time, the deficit would rise off the charts like a lying Al Gore on a high-low in his global warming movie. That of course would force another “crisis” and result in the decimation of still more public services and the austerity hawks would be served.

In short, in spite of The Donald’s appeal to a growing segment of the republican voters who are rejecting the “business as usual” neocon/neo-liberal elements of the established Republican Guard here in ‘Merika!, fact is, The Donald himself is nothing more than a sheepdog looking to bring those wayward voters of the Red State flock back into the warm and fuzzy fold of Reaganomic Trickle-Down ideology.

More specifically, The Donald’s tax plan is nothing more than a slightly revised version of Jeb Bush’s unpopular tax plan. So what The Donald is doing is helping Jeb normalize his image to the republican base.

Who are the current top candidates in the Republican primary right now? Are they establishment congress-critters? Are they austerity hawks like Scott Walker? In a word… no.

In the GOP race, Trump is the first choice of 21 percent of Republican primary voters — followed by Carson at 20 percent and Rubio and Fiorina tied at 11 percent each. NBC News

52% of the people who bother answering polls want a republican president with no previous attachments to the current political system. Trump is obviously a businessman, Carson is a surgeon and Fiorina was the CEO of Hewlett-Packard.

Mr. Austerity, Scott Walker, was one of the first to drop out of the race. Jeb Bush is garnering something like 7% thanks to his association with his brother who helped create the devastation of the last bubble collapse in 2007-2008.

People on the republican side of the fake two party system are rejecting Business as Usual ideology being pushed by the Business Party (Republican and Democrat parties) and understandably so.

Look at what is happening on the fake left side of the divide. Bernie Sanders is doing his best to pretend to be a populist as well and his stock is rising with every email they find of Killary’s swept under a rug someplace in Libya or Syria.

The only reason he’s not the front-runner, yet, is because no one actually thinks he can win. Or no one thinks he’ll live long enough to be sworn in (what is he, a hundred years old?)

The Business Party of America is in trouble. They have zero credibility because everyone knows they are all bought and paid for. So of course, they have to run some candidates who will shepherd the flocks back into the fold like Moses leading the Israelites through the Red Sea divide. Only difference is, they have every intention to crush them under a wave of austerity once they’ve passed that notorious point of no return.

Enter Bernie Sanders and The Donald.

Don’s tax plan makes this point very clear as does Bernie’s stance on things like Israel and the endless wars of “humanitarian” aggression taking place in the Middle East.

Trump’s “populist” tax plan is as follows:

(Though he claims his plan will eliminate various loop-holes and deductions the rich use currently, he has published no specifics on those, so we don’t know what those are)

As you can see, the working poor and middle income Americans would save a little money each year under The Donald’s plan but that amount per family or per worker would be minuscule in comparison to what Big Business and the super wealthy like The Donald would save.

With no inheritance tax (which only applies to the very wealthy anyway) the offspring of The Donald look to save BILLIONS of dollars… literally… since it currently stands at 40% and The Donald’s net worth is reportedly somewhere around 10 billion dollars.

Since he’s giving Big Business a tax break by reducing the corporate rate to a paltry 15%, looks like The Donald’s net worth will increase on that one given all the businesses he runs.

He also plans a tax holiday for all those companies holding trillions of dollars in off-shore accounts, allowing them to bring them back home at a “one time only” rate of 10%. The last time this happened was under Obama a couple years ago and the time before that, under Bush. So much for a “one time only” deal.

And of course, reducing the top tax rate from 39.6 to 25% would make for yet another immediate payday for The Donald.

[I]t appears likely that Trump’s plan would be a financial boon for someone of his wealth. Trump and his wife would pay 25 percent, instead of the current 39.6 percent, on any income above $300,001. An income statement he released alongside his personal financial disclosure report this past summer reported his 2014 income as $362 million.

His proposal to eliminate the 40 percent tax on inheritances of more than $5.4 million would allow him to pass on his estate to heirs tax-free, a savings worth billions given his estimated net worth of more than $10 billion.

And by cutting 10 percentage points from the current corporate tax rate of 35 percent, the Trump Organization and its hundreds of subsidiaries would pay less — assuming they don’t already use tax strategies to reduce their effective rate below 15 percent. AP

Clearly, these major giveaways to Big Business and the Super Rich dwarf any gains to be seen by the average American worker, who, by the way, is now forced to pay the “tax” of an insurance policy which was mandated by ObamaGod and backed by the Supreme Court under the guise that it was a “tax” being paid to Big Insurance.

[relevant:US health insurance deductibles rise sharply, far outpacing wage gains ]

The Donald’s plan, in spite of his “populist” billing saying it was going to “soak the rich and make them pay their fair share”, is nothing more than more of the same trickle-down, supply-side neo-liberal ideology that’s currently being rejected by most of the republican unwashed masses.

Yet here is the phony “alternative” candidate (backed religiously by the phony “alternative” truth-teller, Mike Rivero) pushing for more of the same. So why is that?

Well, as I have said from the very start of all of this… Donald Trump’s job is to get Jeb Bush elected. Or, more specifically, Trump’s role is to create a narrative that can be used to explain HOW Jeb Bush is ‘elected’

Over at Slate they did a comparison between Trump’s and Bush’s tax plans.

You see, The Donald is not going to end up being the republican candidate in 2016. That role is already slated for Jeb Bush.

The Donald has promised to back whichever republican candidate emerges as the victor from all of this. He wont run as an independent, just like the other sheepdog, Bernie Sanders, has promised.

When he backs out, and he will, The Donald will throw his support behind Jeb mainly due to the fact that Jeb’s tax plan is so “similar” to The Donald’s.

Maybe Jeb is forced to make some changes to his in respect to The Donald’s in exchange for his support. Maybe it’s something else.

Whatever the case may be, The Donald, for all his counter-establishment “populist” appeal to the wayward flock of the republican party, will get behind Jeb Bush for 2016.

Now don’t get me wrong; that wont be enough to get Bush “elected”. But it will be enough to serve as a narrative when the poll numbers don’t match the primary election results (electronic voting machines anyone? Let’s face it… Jeb’s brother was the one who helped pass the Help America Vote Act which pumped tens of millions of dollars into that industry in the first place)

The stories will go something like this:

Even if The Donald isn’t capable of actually normalizing Jeb’s supply-side trickle-down economic dinosaur of a tax-plan, it doesn’t really matter because the narrative of an explanation is set in place.

“It’s not what it IS. It never is. It’s what it can be MADE TO LOOK LIKE”

The Trump candidacy is a shadow puppet morality play. It’s Kabuki Theater. He’s the blow-hard comb-over Pied Piper leading the disgruntled out of town right straight to the Bush 2016 camp set off in the woods somewhere with it’s tiny little 7% approval rating.

So just sit back and watch the reality show that is our current “democratic” political system here in ‘Merika!

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