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Politics : A Hard Look At Donald Trump -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (259)	3/11/2016 9:15:02 AM
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'Tax Wall Street,' Trump Pledges After Market Slide January 10, 2016 I see this was a line he tried out in January. Seems to have dropped it. • Bloomberg News Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump pledged to "tax Wall Street" as he sought to use a severe stock market selloff to plant new seeds of fear among voters during a campaign rally Saturday in Ottumwa, Iowa. At times, the real estate mogul sounded more like Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders, a constant critic of Wall Street, than a billionaire candidate running for the Republican presidential nomination. "There's a bubble," Trump told his audience in southeastern Iowa, noting the nation's high level of debt. "You see the stock market is starting to, you know, see what's going on," he said. "It's starting to have some very bad weeks and some very bad numbers." Volatility skyrocketed in financial markets last week as anxiety about economic growth - globally, and especially in China - increased. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index tumbled 6 percent on the week, the biggest drop since September 2011 and the steepest slide over five days to begin a year on record. Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Trump said the market's dive highlighted a dangerous interdependence between the U.S. and China. "We are so tied into China, that when China goes bad, we go bad. We're just tied in, and we're tied in to their advantage, not to our advantage." Trump wrote an editorial in the "Wall Street Journal" in November decrying the "wanton manipulation of China’s currency" as a jobs killer for the U.S. Trump said his financial experience was right for such troubled times. "I'm really good at that stuff," he said in Iowa. "I know Wall Street. I know the people on Wall Street. We're going to have the greatest negotiators of the world, but at the same time I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder. Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us. We're going to tax Wall Street." Trump also highlighted his independence from campaign contributions. "I don't care about the Wall Street guys," he said. "I'm not taking any of their money." The theater where Trump spoke seated about 700 and was filled an hour before his scheduled appearance, forcing hundreds more to stand in an indoor space set up with a video feed. http://www.fa-mag.com/news/-tax-wall-street---trump-pledges-after-market-slide-24551.html