{"id":239456,"date":"2017-07-05T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=239456"},"modified":"2017-07-06T16:04:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T20:04:53","slug":"trumps-draining-the-swamp-while-nobodys-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/07\/05\/trumps-draining-the-swamp-while-nobodys-looking\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Draining the Swamp While Nobody\u2019s Looking"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here\u2019s this Wall Street Journal story: “Could Trump Really Be Draining the Swamp?<\/a>” This is five days ago now. The subheadline is: “The water appears to be receding in key Beltway bureaucracies.” “The Senate still hasn\u2019t voted on Obamacare reform, U.S. workers are still waiting for tax cuts to…” Oh. That\u2019s another story. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m gonna have a chance to get into it today, but you\u2019ve heard that Bannon has leaked that he wants Trump to go for tax increases on the rich. You\u2019ve not heard that? Yeah.<\/p>\n

This came out yesterday, the day before, that Bannon is trying to get Trump to go middle class, lower income tax cut big time, but at the same time a huge tax increase on the 1%, people making 485 grand or more a year. Bannon said he wants to see a tax rate that\u2019s got a four in it. The current top marginal rate\u2019s 39.6. He wants a rate of 42, 43, for people above $485,000 a year.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, the reason for it is apparently Bannon believes that Trump\u2019s base and others, that a majority of Trump support comes from populist nationalists and — this is key — that populists, as opposed to conservatives or liberals, populists and nationalists are very open to class warfare. Let me put it this way. Bannon apparently believes that the majority of you who support Trump would also support really soaking the rich, that you have that in common with liberalism, class warfare aspects.<\/p>\n

The story I saw, Bannon hasn\u2019t been quoted, so, again, it\u2019s in the media, could be all wet. But there were two stories on this I saw, and one of them said that Bannon firmly believes that to broaden Trump\u2019s base, to steal support from Democrats and independents, that there must be a proposal to raising taxes on the rich, because it is a policy that a vast majority of Americans support whether they\u2019re conservative, liberal, independent, moderates, you name it. And that Trump could go a long way to really damaging the Democrat coalition by peeling off a number of Democrat voters who really relish the idea of raising taxes on the rich.<\/p>\n

And so he\u2019s trying to get Trump to do it. There is no indication what Trump thinks about it. Probably a trial balloon that was floated out. The thing that got me about it was, you know, aside from the wrong-headed policy is the belief that this is how you broaden your base. If you\u2019re Trump and your base is populists, nationalists as opposed to conservatives and liberals, that you can really, really own \u2019em if you support tax increases on the rich.<\/p>\n

Now, my gut tells me that a majority of Trump supporters are ambivalent about that, and I don\u2019t think, when you balance that against the rest of Trump\u2019s agenda, they could take it or leave it. I don\u2019t know how many of Trump\u2019s supporters are these rabid soak-the-rich people, as apparently some people and their definition of populism would indicate. My sense, my feeling, my advanced thought process on this is that most Trump supporters are not pedal-to-the-metal raise taxes on the rich, that it\u2019s not one of the things Trump could do that could really cement people\u2019s support for him.<\/p>\n

I think they support Trump whatever he does with the top 1% tax bracket or tax rate on the top 1%. I could be wrong about it. I don\u2019t recall at any time during the campaign where the Trump campaign one time talked about raising taxes on the rich. Maybe it happened and I missed it, but what I took away from the campaign was that Trump was for tax cuts across the board for the stimulus of the economy that would occur. Keep more money in the economy, keep more money in the private sector, the economy grows and expands and more people get hired. I just don\u2019t recall Trump standing for or proposing a tax increase. Maybe he did. I don\u2019t recall.<\/p>\n

Now I\u2019m starting to recall. I\u2019ve got vague memories. Anyway, it\u2019s out there and again I don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s just trial balloon or whether they\u2019re serious about it. But the point of the Wall Street Journal story is the Senate still hasn\u2019t voted on Obamacare reform, workers are still waiting for tax cuts, and Trump\u2019s trading insults with the media.<\/p>\n

By the way, did you notice how quickly Joe Scarborough and crazy Mika vanished from the front pages? Did you notice that? Huh. Well, anyway, Mr. Freeman here at the Wall Street Journal is writing that despite none of these things having happened yet, they\u2019re in the hopper, but they haven\u2019t happened, Trump appears to be making progress in what might have seemed the most difficult job given to him by voters, and that\u2019s reducing the power of Washington\u2019s permanent bureaucracy or the administrative state.<\/p>\n

\"\"“Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wasn\u2019t exactly dying to move to Washington to run a federal department, but he seems to have warmed to the task. Max Bergmann, a former Obama Administration official now at the leftist Center for American Progress, writes in Politico that the ‘deconstruction of the State Department is well underway.\u2019 Discounting for the usual Beltway hyperbole, this probably isn\u2019t as good as it sounds.”<\/p>\n

But apparently Rex Tillerson is beginning to clean house over there. And a couple of other federal bureaucracies people are leaving; their overall size is being reduced. It\u2019s not dramatic in big numbers, but it\u2019s starting to happen. This has not happened in previous administrations. And the Journal asks in this story, “Could Trump Really Be Draining The Swamp?” Folks, I think some of this chaos is by design. It is a distraction. It\u2019s designed to get the media paying attention to themselves or looking elsewhere while Trump does things that they would abhor and despise.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think Trump is the neophyte Washington player that everybody makes him out to be. I don\u2019t think Trump is bumbling around, stumbling into corners and chairs and footstools and stuff not knowing what he\u2019s doing. I think he\u2019s smarter than all of these other people put together, and it\u2019s fascinating because they think he\u2019s such an idiot, a bumbling fool, and that they are running rings around him. It\u2019s kind of an interesting juxtaposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Folks, I think some of this chaos is by design. It is a distraction. 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