What would Trump do? UK Guardian: Build walls, tax imports, "kick" China and Mexico.
The one-time Apprentice host might find that things will begin to get a bit more difficult, however, now that he has to articulate his actual policies. So far we’ve heard that he’ll bring back jobs. That he’ll put up walls. That he’ll take down China and make America great and do a super cool spinning karate kick.
Well, one thing is that he would tax other countries. All of them. But especially Mexico and China, for whom he reserves particular venom. As MSNBC has reported, Trump has promised to get rid of corporate taxes and replace them with a 20% tax on imports and a 15% tax on companies which outsource. There’s only one problem: that would be illegal.
What else? China. Trump likes to talk about China. It’s his thing. In July he told a crowd in New Hampshire that the country would be in for it under a Trump presidency. “Oh, would China be in trouble. The poor Chinese.”
Specifically, the business mogul has said he will “bring back our jobs” from China. (And Mexico and Japan, but mainly China.) He has said the country has stolen US jobs through currency manipulation – a common claim, if an unproven one; the Chinese yuan has actually strengthened against the dollar in the last decade. He has not specified exactly how to bring the jobs back ...
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/06/what-would-trump-actually-do-as-president
Aside from getting rid of corporate taxes, all of his policy ideas seem to involve going after other countries in order to solve our problems. A touch of xenophobia never hurt anyone with the republican base. All of his ideas seem a lot like those of the republicans of the 1920's - less immigration, higher tariffs, lower taxes on corporations and the rich, etc.
And the fact that his policies would illegal probably matters little to him and their base, since they would only be 'illegal' according to international law and agreements - which mean little to them.
