Trump's tax plan clearly lays out his real goal: He is a Manchurian Candidate out to destroy the Party of Bush

There has been a lot of speculation about why Donald Trump is running a fake campaign for president. Now Trump himself revealed the actual reason when he unveiled his tax plan yesterday. He is running, rather overtly now, to destroy the Republican Party that the Bush family has built over the last thirty years.

Everything Trump has done has been carefully crafted to expose, by hyperbole, the toxin coalitions that have put and kept the First Family of Plutocracy in power, either running and ruining the country, or just running and ruining a political party.

Consider his overt nativism.  It is an ironic exaggeration of the wedge politics of race and religion used by Lee Atwater and Karl Rove in the service of the last two Bush presidents.  And now Trump's tax plan serves as an absurdist exaggeration of the crony capitalism enhancing, and plutocracy building reactionary tax policies every Bush presidential candidate has always championed, and ironically, it is only a slightly satiric version of JEB! Bush's actual 2016 tax proposal.  Both propose rather explicitly to completely eliminate the estate tax in order to create a hereditary plutocracy of wealth as aristocracy. Another little detail is more telling: both plans' centerpiece for "growth" are built around a policy of windfall "repatriation" of the corporate profits made by American companies who outsourced production over the last thirty years, and parked the profits offshore. Under both Bush and Trump's plan, companies get to bring this money back into the US at minimal tax rates, 8 percent and 10 percent respectively.

What would these two tax plans do to encourage such companies to invest this money in the US in ways that create jobs and expand domestic industrial production?  Nothing.  They can do whatever they want with the money.  Turn right around and use it to build more factories in other countries. Use it for leveraged buyouts of competitors. Use it for any speculative purpose they want.

The beauty of what Trump has done is just now being revealed.  He is getting his Republican rivals to condemn this quintessentially Bush Republican tax plan, while right wing radio embraces it. He is getting the media to point out how many trillions of dollars it would add to US national debt.  And all the while, as will be apparent very soon, he is exposing to the rest of the country outside the circus tent exactly what the Republican Party really promotes, and how it will boomerang right back at JEB!, and his central reason for existence as a politician.

Thanks Mr. Trump.  If you succeed in destroying this overripe scheme of regressive upward wealth and income redistribution, and its primary generational and familial proponents, you may actually play some little part in helping make America great again one day.

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