first off the tax is just really badly designed and not progressive at all:
Households making less than $30,000 per year would pay $25; those making less than $40,000 would pay $57; those making less than $50,000 would pay $98; those making less than $75,000 would pay $164; those making less than $100,000 would pay $270; those making less than $200,000 would pay $485; and those making more than $200,000 would pay $1,000.?
As for his answer on putting war powers back with congress and his seeming openness to repealing (or re-voting on the AUMF) is pretty good. His answer on Afghanistan is pretty bad, he says one of his pre-conditions is that Afghanistan can never be used to launch attacks on the US from again. He says we've "satisfied" that and that he would pledge to get them out within 4 years. It sounds an awful lot like Obama's promises and I am similarly skeptical about how he is going to roll back the "metastasized" conflicts he speaks about in the other clip. Just unilateral withdrawl? Put each up for a vote?
What happens when congress likely just re-ups the AUMF and punts back to him? He sounds like that process would satisfy his concerns and empire could get on about its business.
I just don't have the trust that he is really serious about this at all or else it wouldn't be a "war tax" with the focus on a very minor reform of the VA, it would instead just be a plan to get out of Afghanistan and Iraq and roll back the rest of these undeclared conflicts.
