Brooks: If You’re Supporting Trump to Get a Tax Bill You Support, ‘You’re Putting Money Above Morals’

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that those who support President Trump so they’ll get a tax bill they agree with are putting money ahead of morality.

Brooks stated, “I grant, for some conservatives, Trump offers something, and he — maybe the administration is hiring a lot of their former staffers in a way they think is good and influential. But I guess I would say, your priorities are messed up, that if you are supporting Donald Trump because he’ll get you a tax bill you like, you’re putting money above morals. And the character and the morals of the country and the social fabric of the country are more important than whether the tax rate is 39.6 or 35.4. And so, I’d — and I’d ask them to think about that. I guess when I do make that point, a lot of the things I find outrageous about Donald Trump’s behavior, they seem kind of distant, and not — they treat those things as unimportant. They put sort of a vast distance between them and some of the daily fights and dishonesties that I think characterize a lot of this president’s behavior.”

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