Donald Trump swore off Oreos over Nabisco’s closure of a plant in Chicago, which will be moving to Mexico due to burdensome corporate taxes. Glenn took Trump to task over this comment, questioning how Trump is being touted as a Republican conservative. He’s acting more like a Republican progressive, Glenn argued, adding progressivism is a cancer that kills the Constitution. “[Trump] says, ‘I’m going to make us competitive.’ How, when you’re booing Nabisco for moving when we have the highest corporate tax rate? How, when you’re implying that you should boycott Oreos because they’re now in Mexico?” Glenn said. Here’s what Glenn said actually happens. “If you stay in the United States, you become the Twinkies and you go out of business. And then, instead of having a company, like Ford still at least owns the company, instead, you go out of business and a Mexican company buys Twinkies. And then they make them there. They sell them here. And all of the money goes back to Mexico. Which do you prefer Mr. Constitutional conservative Donald Trump? Help me out,” Glenn said.
Source: http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/08/25/glenn-to-trump-stop-demonizing-the-companies-and-start-fixing-the-problems/?utm_source=glennbeck&utm_medium=contentcopy_link“Help me out. Tell me exactly, how is this guy a Republican conservative?” Beck demanded. “I’ll tell you who he is. He is a Republican progressive.”
Beck noted that Trump has also voiced support for government-run health care, isn’t clear about whether he supports a flat tax, and bullies companies who are forced out of the United States because of our oppressive tax structure.
“You want more of the same stuff, except with attitude, in your face, a bully? Then vote for Donald Trump,” Beck remarked. “You want conservative principles, constitutional principles, lower taxes, lower corporate tax rates, freedom in insurance? You’re not going to get it from a guy who says the Canadian [healthcare system] is good. I’m sorry, but I don’t understand it.”
I found hundreds of comments to the first article on Facebook - most of them FOR Trump and AGAINST Beck.Most of the comments on the second article run the same way.Glen Beck, despite being a 'true libertarian' comes across as a sort of corporate shill yearning for the glory days of the 19th century. From my POV Beck's positions benefit ONLY a very few at the top of the heap.Trump is all over the political map, at times supporting things that are utter anathema to conservatives and libertarians.Zen's take ought to be interesting.
