Went to Wikipedia to find out what
Donald Trump's platform is and here's what I found.
There's some doozies in this... :/
Political positions
Trump has stated that he is a "conservative Republican."
Domestic issues
Trump has stated his support for traditional marriage and expressed that
same-sex marriage should be decided by the states, while he said of the June 2015
supreme court ruling "it's an issue that been determined by the Supreme Court. And frankly, you know, I'm about jobs." Trump supports the
Second Amendment and is opposed to
gun control in general, while supporting a ban on
assault weapons and longer
waiting periods for gun purchases.
Economy
Trump supports pro-growth policies and reduced taxation on U.S. workers and business with reduced regulation to increase economic growth and create opportunity. Trump has proposed a 1-5-10-15 income tax plan in order to simplify the tax code, where incomes of up to $30,000 would pay 1%, incomes of $30,000 to $100,000 would pay 5%, incomes of $100,000 to $1 million would pay 10%, incomes of $1 million and up would pay 15%. Further, his plan would eliminate the inheritance tax, eliminate the corporate tax, lower the capital gains tax, and instead apply a 20% import tariff and a 15% tax on
outsourcing to foreign countries. Trump favors stronger trade negotiations with nations such as China, with a more level playing field on trade, to restore American jobs applying tariffs when necessary. Trump favors a free market energy policy and opposes
cap and trade also called 'cap and tax'. Trump supports improving America's infrastructure.
Education
Trump favors
school choice and local control for primary and secondary schools. He opposes federally mandated
Common Core standards for primary and secondary schools. He has called Common Core a disaster that must be ended.
Foreign affairs and national defense
Trump has stated his intention to provide presidential leadership with strong diplomacy to restore "respect" for the United States around the world and he supports a robust national defense. In his announcement speech he said that the USA is getting weaker as a country and that its nuclear arsenal is old and does not work.
In an interview with
NBC News in
Charlottesville, Virginia, on July 14, 2015, Trump called the newly-announced
nuclear deal with Iran "terrible", saying that the president negotiated the agreement "from desperation." He added, "I don't understand the president. He dealt from desperation, and he shouldn't have been desperate." He further stated, "First of all, we're giving them billions of dollars in this deal, which we shouldn't have given them. We should have kept the money," in reference to the sanctions relief for Iran under the deal, which was negotiated by Iran and six world powers led by the United States. "Second of all, we have four prisoners over there. We should have said 'Let the prisoners out.' They shouldn't be over there." Trump also said that any deal should stipulate that inspectors have 24-hour-a-day access immediately to all nuclear sites.
Speaking about the threat of
ISIS with
Anderson Cooper on
CNN, Trump said he would "bomb the hell" out of Iraq's oil fields, which he believes are controlled by ISIS. "If I win, I would attack those oil sites that are controlled and owned -- they are controlled by ISIS. I wouldn't send many troops because you won't need 'em by the time I'm done."
Healthcare and Social Security
Trump favors replacing the
Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as Obamacare) with a free market plan and competition to lower costs. This is a change of his earlier support for a
single-payer system. He supports funding Social Security and Medicare rather than cutting them. He has previously expressed support for allowing people to privately invest their social security dollars.
Trump is
pro-life, and would ban abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or health. He is in favor of cutting federal funding for
Planned Parenthood.
Trump believes that childhood
vaccinations are related to autism.
Illegal immigration and border security
Trump has made U.S. border security a priority. During his announcement speech he stated in part, "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems.... They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." On July 6, 2015, Trump issued a written statement to clarify his position on illegal immigration which drew a reaction from critics. It read in part:
"The Mexican Government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States. They are, in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc. This was evident just this week when, as an example, a young woman in San Francisco was viciously killed by a 5 time deported Mexican with a long criminal record, who was forced back into the United States because they didn’t want him in Mexico. This is merely one of thousands of similar incidents throughout the United States. In other words, the worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The largest suppliers of heroin, cocaine and other illicit drugs are Mexican cartels that arrange to have Mexican immigrants trying to cross the borders and smuggle in the drugs. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border. The United States has become a dumping ground for Mexico and, in fact, for many other parts of the world. On the other hand, many fabulous people come in from Mexico and our country is better for it. But these people are here legally, and are severely hurt by those coming in illegally. I am proud to say that I know many hard working Mexicans—many of them are working for and with me…and, just like our country, my organization is better for it."
The
Center for Immigration Studies, an immigration think-tank that advocates lowered immigration, has said that illegal immigrants are not necessarily charged and incarcerated accordingly, but account for a proportionate number of US incarcerations. Other groups such as the
ACLU and the government run
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) have said there is no demonstrated correlation between immigration and crime, and no direct evidence presented has revealed whether Mexico has policies that force people to immigrate illegally the U.S. However, over 36,000 criminally convicted illegal immigrants were released by
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2013, of which over 32,000 were traffic-related.
