Is President Trump trying to eliminate income taxes on all citizens?
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I think his goal is to do away with income tax, though I’m not sure he’ll get there. Back before income tax was started, the government ran on only tariffs. That’s how they paid for their operating costs. But there are two big differences between then and now. The first is that the government is no bigger and covers more things than it did at that time. The second is that no one has any clue how much useless spending is done every day by the government.
He created DOGE to look at where we spend our money. What they are finding is both amazing and disturbing. Especially when you put it up against US Citizens getting blasted by natural disasters and having the government tell them that they can only get $750 to make up for all their loss. $50M to pay for condoms in Gaza, but no money for people wiped out in our country.
If you look at much of what Trump is doing, it is all about shrinking the size and control of the federal government. The country becomes much more prosperous if the government is smaller, spending less, and people’s taxes are reduced. Hell, he might even get to where we can pay down some of our national debt.
Wulfie that $50million for condoms has been proven false but you keep pushing your frightwing propaganda.
Of course the US spent $50 million on condoms for Gaza. Musk tweeted it (or what ever the fuck you call it on X)
Do you have a link that he is trying to do that? I think he just wants to make more tax cuts for the rich, not eliminate them. Spreading wild rumors without facts does nobody any good in this environment – or any other.
The country becomes much more prosperous if the government is smaller
Good point. For example, see small-government paradises like Somalia and how much better they live than people in socialist hellholes like Sweden!
@janbb Google “Trump vows to scrap income tax” , Fox news on YouTube.
Also Trump said that in the United States, before income taxes was a period of prosperity. Where taxes were only on tariffs.
Not sure what good eliminating income tax would do, since that is a big way that the government gets their revenue.
I’m hearing what a disaster the tariffs are. Canada liquor stores are pulling American liquor from their shelves. Now we’re in a trade war, and prices on all kinds of goods are going to go up.
I told my daughter last night how many things in an average household are from China. Almost everything in a store – appliances, all kinds of stuff, is from China. Car prices are going to go up (news says average 3k per car), auto parts, oil changes. How is this going to help the average person? How is this going to make inflation go down (which was Trump’s campaign promise)?
Trump said today. “WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!),” Trump said in a social media post. “BUT WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID.”
(The all caps is Trump, he is yelling at you in text.”
Trump is not trying to eliminate income tax for the bottom 98%, just for the top 1%.
Yeah, forgive me everyone. When the WH spokesman says it, I tend to give it credence. But seriously, are all of you really wrapped around the axle of the condoms (no pun intended) or are you trying to say the government doesn’t waste money? Look at the citations you gave. It wasn’t $50M for condoms, it was $100M which includes contraception. Okay. So why are we sending $100M to an area that has sworn to kill us? Do I really care if they reproduce or get STDs or whatever? Nope. Not at all. Am I cold hearted? Maybe. But I’m tired of watching us throw tons of money at stupid things…wasteful things…while we go deeper and deeper in debt, causing our dollar to be worth less and less.
You are all just thinking you have a gotcha because Trump also used the number of $50M for condoms but you are ignoring the shit hole the Dems have dug us into.
Wulf, you brought up condoms and accuse everyone else of being wrapped up in them? Lol!
@chyna the slime gets caught lying and then complains being called out for lying.
It does seem he is going more for sales tax to increase revenue into our government, which is very regressive if it goes too far. It benefits the rich and really harms the poor.
I don’t know. But it would a dumb move. It’s what funds the government! Some states don’t have property taxes, like Oklahoma, and property taxes fund highway development. Oklahoma has crap roads.
@chyna Yes I did bring it up. As I was answering the question that was asked. What have you contributed to the conversation?
@Call_Me_Jay Yep, you could go to Somalia as the best example of smaller government. And I guess I could go to China as the best example of overblown government. So you can see how well that works!
When the WH spokesman says it, I tend to give it credence…
…if it’s a Republican.
Thanks for the illustration of the difference between faith and belief as opposed to knowledge and facts.
@Call_Me_Jay I gave Jen Psaki and KJP benefit of the doubt until they started dodging every question and flat out lying about others. Now that I’ve been burned by Levitt I will question her as well.
And I guess I could go to China as the best example of overblown government.
China is an example of an authoritarian government, which is what Trump is quickly implementing. They have few checks and balances, which is why they have a horrible human rights records and rampant corruption.
I mean every socially funded things would go to hell, like schools and education and Social Security….oh. Wait. It’s probably exactly what he wants to do. He’s thinks he can somehow divert those funds into his pockets (him and his string puller’s) But he’s too stupid to understand that canceling taxes would mean there would be no funds to divert!
Trump. Business as usual.
Yes, that is the end goal.
We may need to buy American or make other changes, its not like the last four years were easy on us to be fair.
So we’d fund the government with state sales tax @KNOWITALL?
If this guy and his tech cronies are gonna ruin the world, there better at least be something nice at the end of it.
Even if you’re a good citizen that does everything right in life, you’re looking at 3000 rent everywhere and expensive groceries.
@Call_Me_Jay No, China is a bloated authoritarian government that has total control of every aspect of the people’s lives. Trump is trying to shrink the government and move power away from the federal government. But your TDS can’t acknowledge that without admitting your are full of it.
@Blackberry We’re pretty much there now. Thanks to the left wing policies. You know, the kind you support where the government takes over everything and gives you what they think you need?
How would tariffs affect how much the government gives you? Like food stamps and Section 8 housing?
@Dutchess_III
They mean the time where tarriffs were the only source of income.
With the fact that the colonies have the most bloated military apparatus in the world, which I guarantee you will not see any budget cuts, it would mean that food stamps and housing will not have any funding, if they are not completely abolished anyway.
I’ve just been thinking about what effect the tariffs will have, and another thing I can think that will be inevitably going up is insurance rates. Auto insurance. Homeowner’s. If auto parts cost more, then auto repairs cost more, then when your car is crashed, the body shop is going to charge more, which means your auto insurance is going up. Ditto with homeowner’s. When lumber and all kinds of stuff in your house is more expensive, the insurance companies are going to see their profits down, and they won’t be deprived for long, so prices for that insurance will go up too.
Well ya! Crazy tariffs are not good. But what does that have to do with income tax?
@Dutchess_III Trump is going to reduce income taxes on the richest of the rich. . . not us poor slobs.
While adding tariffs and penalties to start a trade war with A L L our trade partners. Nothing at the end of the year will cost the same as it did December 2024.
I know that’s bad! I understand tariffs.
But the Q asks if he was going to eliminate taxes for everyone. Not just lower taxes on the rich.
That’s what I’m asking.
I don’t either. I guess I was asking where he got the idea.
^^ I asked that above and RDG said he saw on a YouTube of Fox News.
@seawulf575
Uh, america has states with both sides. Didn’t a bunch of people die in Texas because they were on a privatized grid, and the governor told people you’re on your own?
And the republicans cheerfully handed America over to Hitler.
As of Monday morning, Feb 3, Trump is putting the Mexico tariff on hold for a month. Mexico is sending 10,000 troops to their border to help stop the flow of Fentanyl.
What a complicated bunch of BS. No way in hell he orchestrated any of it.
We need to make a name for the fictional president pulling his strings. “Musk” is too obvious.
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