This is why they love him more than they love the corporate lovin’ Dems. And why shouldn’t they? He and the GOP keep slashing their taxes, destroying regulations, privatizing public goods, services and assets, and dismantling environmental protections, which were already too weak.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tweets-federal-coronavirus-aid-may-depend-on-sanctuary-cities-2020-5
*President Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday that he may condition federal aid to states battling the coronavirus on those states eliminating sanctuary cities, payroll taxes, and capital-gains taxes.
*”Well run States should not be bailing out poorly run States, using CoronaVirus as the excuse!” Trump tweeted.
*”The elimination of Sanctuary Cities, Payroll Taxes, and perhaps Capital Gains Taxes, must be put on the table,” he added. “Also lawsuit indemnification & business deductions for restaurants & ent.”
Notice how viciously clever he’s being by throwing in “Sanctuary Cities.” That will fire up his “base” of malicious yahoos, and make them forget about Trump’s gifts to billionaires. He’s telling them he’s going to slash their taxes again, protect them from litigation, and all but guarantee future austerity to protect those tax cuts. Cutting payroll taxes today means the GOP will push for deep social safety net cuts tomorrow.
Of course, the mere idea that any president would withhold aid to states, in the middle of a pandemic, until they meet his demands — as if Trump owns those assets and they’re his to divvy up . . . . Has there ever been a president in our lifetime who blackmailed the rest of the country like that?
In my view, it’s self-evidently the case that Trump is the most monstrous of recent presidents, and we’ve had some real doozies.