Quote:working with what we have is how we've gotten stuck with the temporary income tax for near a century. Radical changes are needed or it's just a different shade of lipstick on the pig. Trump is pulling off one of the greatest con jobs of the century on the American Right, and they're buying it hook line and sinker.

 

Trump is a big government corporatist, heck he's not even a social conservative. Of course he supports a progressive tax scale it's how they keep the peasants happy. Fair tax or bust, I don't even support the flat tax. The state has NO right to my money before I ever see it. I'm done compromising. 

I don't think they are.  I believe Trump's popularity is more broad spectrum than the conservative base.  Conservatives appreciate the fact that he's not willing to play the politically correct game.  Other than that, they've got a pretty good read on who he is, and the majority recognize that he's not one of them.  He's more of a curiosity at the moment, and that love affair is already starting to fizzle. 

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