But now Trump is able to finance his own campaign, meaning that unlike other candidates, he doesn’t have to think before he speaks about Wall Street, taxes or pretty much anything else. The result, of course, has been that he has been an equal-opportunity offender – literally.
What is intriguing is that among those he is offending are some who would love to support a leading Republican: business interests and especially Wall Street. But Trump instead is doing what other candidates have feared to do, and standing firm as the “disrupter”. He blasted Jeb Bush’s ties to Wall Street, arguing that the latter’s job as an adviser to Lehman Brothers (for which he earned $1.3m a year) should disqualify him from the presidency. He has suggested changing the tax code to punish companies that base factories in other countries, and forcing companies to give up plans to dodge that tax code by merging with non-US businesses and shifting their headquarters abroad, a process known as “inversion”. full: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/06/donald-trump-us-economic-system-unjust _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
