website for policy positions. there isn t anything up there for policy right now. policy-wise, how would you be different than president trump? great question because understand, i m running against trump because he s morally unfit. period. it s about trump. it s not about the issues. it s about trump. but on the issues, i believe in wall trump hasn t built a wall. i believe in border security, trump botched the border. the border is a bigger mess the president on immigration. if you want to call that to the right. i don t believe trump is anywhere to the left or right. trump is only about trump. i went to washington ten years ago to do something about the debt and deficits. this president is increasing the debt more than obama did. would you back off the tax cut? well, i yes. that was a horrible tax cut. i would have probably i believe in cutting taxes that was a bad tax cut. i would have given a middle class payroll tax cut. tariffs are horrible policies. americans, f
certainly a payroll tax cut. president obama did that in order to artificially jack up the economy. we want to find out what happened with the last democrat president. let s look into obama. previous presidents haven t always liked each other. of course there were tensions between president hoover and there he is and fdr as well as harry truman and dwight eisenhower. never have we seen a president so willing to publicly disparage his predecessor like trump does. back with christine todd whitman, barbara boxer and michael steele. you re not supposed to like each other politically. they didn t talk together on those famous inaugural car trips. but this obsession is like cain and abel. it s like cain is complaining because god loved the offering of abel so much. people like the legacy of obama and that really bothers him. i think you re right. he is so afraid that obama is going to look better in history books than he will.
has been behaving of late domestically, the entire week leading up to the g-7 summit was a number of flip-flops on key economic policies, beginning with the payroll tax cut idea and other steps that really mar business leaders in the united states as well as people in the government pretty alarmed about the stability of this president and his policy making. that continued obviously overseas with a number of steps. one thing that stuck out in our reporting, i wasn t on this trip but helping report on the fall-out from heren washington, the president s private discussions about vladamir putin, he was an advocate on behalf of the russian president in those private sessions with the other leaders of the g-7 group. it just further illustrated the gulf between the united states and its allies. i was going to read from some of your great reporter about these imagined phone calls.
what s worst than that, steve mnuchin the treasury secretary went on fox news and he was asked a question of well, what & this all about the president calling jay powell an enemy of the people, and mnuchin said, well, president xi isn t such a bad guy and he never mentioned powell at all. wow. so even the treasury secretary wasn t willing to come to the defense of the chairman of the fed as a man of integrity, trying to do the right thing. and in the views of every economist a superb chairman of the federal reserve. and so when i want to just jump in, steve, ask you quickly, trump has a lot of tools still in his economic kit. i m wondering if there are ways you think he could try to juice the economy as we head into the election year? there s been talk about a payroll tax cut. other things he could do that would try to flush more money into the economy. to help his re-election chances. what do you think of the
what kind? you said middle class. that to me sounds like payroll tax cuts. no, i don t want to get into a lot of detail on that bus i don t want to get ahead of the curve, but highly unlikely we ll go to some sort of the idea of some short-term payroll tax cut fix, it doesn t work, it never works. it has no lasting impact. we re looking at incentives. we re looking at lower look, the personal tax rates could easily be lowered and probably, the brackets could be shrunk. that s a thought. small businesses, for example, could easily benefit from additional tax reform. for example, you know, llc s might even benefit we might even kind of work through a way to help our friends in some of the states who are concerned about the shrinkage of the tax deductions