Republican debate, Donald Trump said something sensible about taxes.You could be forgiven for missing the moment amid the blizzard of grade-school insults and flat-out lying coming from the stage at the Ronald Reagan Library. Heck, you could be forgiven for skipping the debate because you found that re-watching the Sharknado trilogy was a better use of your time. But considering the unquestioned assumptions that formed the foundation for the candidates’ views – that the Iran deal is a terrible one that weakens America, that the Planned Parenthood videos show a baby being murdered to harvest its brain, that vaccines cause autism – it’s interesting that the current GOP frontrunner once again challenged standing Republican orthodoxy on income taxes, and hardly anyone seems to have noticed.
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Somewhere in the middle of the Long March that was Wednesday night’s Republican debate, Donald Trump said something sensible about taxes.
You could be forgiven for missing the moment amid the blizzard of grade-school insults and flat-out lying coming from the stage at the Ronald Reagan Library. Heck, you could be forgiven for skipping the debate because you found that re-watching the Sharknado trilogy was a better use of your time. But considering the unquestioned assumptions that formed the foundation for the candidates’ views – that the Iran deal is a terrible one that weakens America, that the Planned Parenthood videos show a baby being murdered to harvest its brain, that vaccines cause autism – it’s interesting that the current GOP frontrunner once again challenged standing Republican orthodoxy on income taxes, and hardly anyone seems to have noticed.