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Reminder. From 1999. (Can't sauce it but it made a huge impression) POTUS and a group of friends played with the idea of buying the entire national debt. In lieu of sauce on that statement, I offer the following article dated 1999. From CNN no less. (Took me a long freakin' time to find anything that wasn't fake.) spit
"The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac," Trump said. "By my calculations, 1 percent of Americans, who control 90 percent of the wealth in this country, would be affected by my plan," Trump said. "The other 99 percent of the people would get deep reductions in their federal income taxes," he said.
Eliminating the national debt would save the federal government $200 billion a year in interest payments, Trump said. He proposes to earmark half the savings for middle class tax cuts, and the other half for Social Security.
Disneyland-on-the-Potomac. Has a certain ring to it.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/11/09/trump.rich/index.html