Jim Hightower: Donnie’s Little Lies are Huuuuuge
An old saying asserts that falsehoods come in three escalating levels: Lies, damn lies, and statistics. Now, however, weve been given an even-higher level of intentional deception: Policy speeches by Donald Trump.
Take his recent highly publicized address outlining specific economic policies he would push to benefit hard-hit working families. Its an almost-hilarious compilation of Trumpian fabrications, including his bold, statesmanlike discourse on the rank unfairness of the estate tax: No family will have to pay the death tax, he solemnly pledged, adopting the right-wing pejorative for a tax assessed on certain properties of the dearly departed. Fine, but next came his slick prevarication: American workers have paid taxes their whole lives, and they should not be taxed again at death. Workers? The tax exempts the first $5.4 million of any deceased persons estate, meaning 99.8 percent of Americans pay absolutely nothing. So Trump is trying to deceive real workers into thinking hes standing for them, when in fact its his own wealth hes protecting.
What a maverick! What a shake-em-up outsider! What an anti-establishment fighter for working stiffs!
Oh, and dont forget this: What a phony!
Sure, The Donald sounds like a populist on the stump, bellowing that the systems been jerry-rigged by and for the corporate and political elites, which is killing the middle class. Well, hes right about that, but whats he going to do? Dont worry, he says smugly, Ill fix it, Ill make the system honest again trust me!
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