One of our nation’s top financial gurus, Dave Ramsey, who has one of the most popular radio/podcast programs on the topic, recently stated on his show that he’s voting for former President Donald Trump. And if you have a problem with that, well, you can stop listening to him, because, as Ramsey made clear during the episode, it’s not like anyone can cancel him. He owns the show. And that my friends, is a great case for conservatives building their own distribution platforms, as they are censorship proof.
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A couple of weeks ago, Ramsey had an opportunity to sit down and do an interview with Trump about the economic future of our nation. During the 25 minute long conversation, there were three questions the radio host asked the 45th president.
The first had to do with lowering taxes for small business owners. Ramsey asked Trump, “I’m a small-business guy. If you lower my taxes, it doesn’t mean I put it in my pocket. It means I hire people. Talk about lowering taxes in the first year of your administration.”
Here’s more from MSN:
Trump noted that he plans to lower taxes in two phases. The first is to continue lowering the corporate tax rate. In his first administration, the corporate tax rate lowered from 39% to 21%. In a second administration, he would aim to drop the rate from 21% to 15%, but with the caveat that “you have to manufacture your product [in the United States].” The second phase of his plan to aid small business in America would be to place tariffs on foreign products sold in America to keep American companies competitive.
Ramsey then pressed the former president on what he believed was the root cause of the financial pain the vast majority of Americans have been experiencing over the last several years. The GOP nominee said he believes the culprit is inflation.
“People are getting wiped out like never before,” Trump told Ramsey. “I think it’s the highest inflation we’ve ever had. They say it’s the highest in 48 years. I think it’s the highest ever.”
Lastly, the pair tackled the issue of how Trump, if elected president, would fix inflation and that led to a discussion of energy.
“The first thing you have to do is get the energy [costs] down … If you get the energy down, other things are going to follow,” he said during the conversation. “I’ll be able to get energy down to 50% of what it is now in a period of less than year” by removing regulatory restrictions around fracking and oil drilling, asserting that “if we do that, all those inflated prices are going to come down.”
Ramsey’s backing the right horse in this race. If we ever want to be able to visit the local grocery store and not have to sell a kidney on the black market to buy some milk, eggs, and bread, we need someone in office who will reduce government waste spending and find creative ways to reduce inflation. Trump is just the right guy for that job.