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I do not like his proposed tax plan for many reasons, most due to the fact, he hasn’t shown us a plan. Trump writes “Fix tax code” on a sticky note and hands it to the first person who walks past his door. “Here, write a tax plan.” As a result, we get a three page tax plan that reminds me of a third-grade book report when the kid didn’t read the book.Here are some of the problems…(if you are actually still reading):The “average tax cut” for families is $4,000. Sounds great. I could use $4,000. If I’m rich and receive a $15,000,000 cut, and you receive nothing. We “averaged” a tax cut of $7,500,000. What are you going spend your $7.5 million on? Who just paid for my $7.5 million tax cut. Remember, you didn’t get any cut and still paid taxes.The biggest cuts go to Trump and people like him. The 1% of the richest Americans and corporations. Trump says that if we give them tax breaks, they will split the savings with their employees. He is basing this on the more than 35 years of experience we have in watching this practice fail miserably. That’s right, trickle down economics has never worked…anywhere…in any form. The Congressional Budget Office published a study looking at that history and debunked the entire concept. Have you read it? Oh yeah, Republicans refused to pay to have it printed. Good thing PDF copies are FREE!!! Here is a link: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/news/business/0915taxesandeconomy.pdf and here is a link to the Forbes magazine story about Republican actions: Non-Partisan Congressional Tax Report Debunks Core Conservative Economic Theory-GOP Suppresses StudyTrump has proposed trillions of dollars in infrastructure improvements, including…wait for it…his damned wall. The tax break he wants to give the rich is going to cause the deficit to skyrocket. Think about it. You want to buy a new car. You don’t have enough money for it. So to get the money, you suggest that your wife quit working. You can’t raise more money by eliminating half or more of your income. I know you quit reading as soon as I typed the first numbers, but in case you are still here, this is just common sense. Even conservatives ought to understand the concepts.There are many more reasons I could list, but most come down to this: at this point, Trump could propose the most-comprehensive, accurately scored, and vetted tax plan in the history of the world. I’d still hate the shit out of it because he has NO credibility with me and never will. That he finds a new way to dig a deeper hole each and every day isn’t helping his cause.Enjoy your tax break.

I wouldn’t. My parents never censored my reading, and I read every book in the house by the time I was in third grade. Including some really racy stuff, like Shakespeare, Dickens and the like. I guess they figured that if I didn’t understand what I was reading, it couldn’t hurt me too much, and if I did, I would ask questions and they could explain the so-called, “grown-up” parts to me. My favorite book in fourth grade, was a four volume leather bound set of Don Quixote, which I read from cover to cover to cover to cover to cover to cover to cover to cover. Then I wrote a book report on it, which my teacher gave me a “d” on because she claimed I was too young to read a book like that. Boy, did that make me mad. so I began telling her the story, with all the adventures, one after the next, until she was convinced I had really read the book.Don’t censor your children’s reading. Let them discover the world through literature. Just make sure they have some quality reading they can sink their teeth into. And be prepared to explain the icky parts.

What ruined your relationship with a teacher?Being threatened with failing third grade because I could spell.I have very strong ADHD, although I was not diagnosed until I was in my 40s.Part of my ADHD is a trick memory, and part is hyperfocus on what is interesting, and part is an inability to sit still for guff.I could spell at way above grade level. Psychosomatic. Syzygy. Sextillion. Antidisestablishmentarianism. I remember who told me those words, and where and when. I didn’t learn preumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis until much later. As I said, a trick memory.Having to copy spelling words that I knew, over and over, was guff. So I didn’t do it. So I got 0 four days a week, and with my 100 on the Friday spelling test, that gave me an average of…At this point the third-grade teacher turned bright red and stopped talking (my mother told me later), and my mother decided I needed to go to a school that would focus on teaching, and not guff. After that, she and I would make deals with various teachers for me to do harder but interesting homework, and be let off whatever turned out to be guff for me. Book reports on children’s books. Elementary geometry. Probability. I got to skip first-year algebra, and then first-year calculus, and in college first-year logic and set theory. I took graduate courses as an undergraduate. I can spell in, in, in I forget how many languages. I could count them up, but who cares? I answer questions in five languages here on Quora.