How Trump Dog-Whistles the Business Establishment
How Trump Dog-Whistles the Business Establishment:
He cleverly woos the GOP base on issues like trade, but this working-class hero is actually a willing agent of the 1 percenters.
William Greider
3/18/16
(The Nation) Even as Donald Trump woos working-class voters by trashing Washington politicians, he is sending a reassuring message to the business-financial establishment: Dont worry, Im on your side, hes telling corporate execs in coded language. Trump the deal maker has signaled that hell deliver mammoth tax forgivenessworth hundreds of billionsto the largest multinational corporations.
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Im disgusted with it; Im tired of seeing it, Trump told his adoring fans. People cant get their money back into the country because the politicians cant get along, they cant make a deal
. Companies are leaving our country in order to go and get moneythats their moneybecause theres no way of bringing it in.
Trump says he would change all that instantly as president. The deal maker would introduce a cooperative spirit of compromise. If I sat down with a few of the senators, or a few of the congressmen, you could make a deal on that in 10 minutes, he said.
Like so much of his campaign rhetoric, Trump turns reality into baloney. The multinationals can bring their profits home anytime they wish. Like right now. They merely have to pay the taxes they already owe. The threat to American citizens is that both Democrats and Republicans will cave in and collaborate in giving the corporate tax dodgers what they want. The rest of us will pick up the tab.
Bernie is the better contrast, and he is the better choice for the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" that think they will get to that level of wealth eventually and want to keep the system intact for when they finally arrive. Bernie is also the only democrat talking to these people, Trump supporters.
I don't want to talk about Trump, personally, unless it's to demonstrate the better alternative for this particular demographic.
Democrats used to talk about the decline of upward mobility. What ever happened to that?
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