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AQUINO, ROXAS TO MEET WITH DONALD TRUMP TO DISCUSS SENATOR POE CITIZENSHIP ISSUE

September 16, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Philippine President NoyNoy Aquino and his anointed successor Mar Roxas will fly to Las Vegas this weekend for an unofficial visit to the United States. While there, the duo will meet with Republican presidential canidate Donald Trump at the latter’s Trump Towers.

The purpose of the meeting: to seek Trump’s advice on how best to deal with the citizenship issue faced by Senator Grace Poe who has just declared her candidacy in the 2016 Philippine presidential elections.

Poe’s political opponents have questioned whether or not she was born in the Philippines, a qualification to become president. She was adopted by Actors Fernando Poe, Jr. and Susan Roces when she was a baby. The senator’s biological parents are unknown.

Aquino and Roxas are running scared because Poe is extremely popular and continues to maintain the lead in national polls among presidential candidates.

Many will recall that Trump is a self-identified birther, having stubbornly pursued the question of whether or not President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Obama released his long-form Hawaii birth certificate in April 2011 after speculation from Trump and others that he might have been born elsewhere.

“We’d like Trump’s advice on how we can use the citizenship issue against Poe in the presidential campaign. That’s the only way we can defeat the senator,” Roxas told reporters.

Aquino will also extend a formal invitation to Trump to visit the Philippines before his term as president expires in 2016. “I will be very honored to be among the very first world leaders to welcome the future president of the United States,” Aquino said.

Economy, Government, Politics

PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT AQUINO WANTS TO TAX FILIPINOS EVEN MORE, UP TO FORTY PERCENT

September 15, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines ( The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Philippine President Aquino is not convinced lowering income tax rates will benefit the majority of the Filipino people, saying improving tax collection — not reducing it — has been one of his administration’s greatest accomplisments.

Aquino’s statement came after he rejected a House bill seeking to lower income tax rates in the Philippines. If approved, the government is estimated to lose at least P30 billion or $641.49 million during its first year of implementation.

“Especially with the coming 2016 election year, we need to increase, not reduce, income taxes in order to sustain the many unfinished infrastructure projects of the government. Plus we need the funds to run a successful political campaign to make sure the administration’s bet, former Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas, becomes the next president,” he said.

The current personal income tax rate in the Philippines is 32 percent.

Aquino wants to immediatelty increase it to 40 percent.

Asked by reporter how he came up with the proposed figure, Aquino said, “It’s easier for the Bureau of Internal Revenue to deal with a round number.”

Politics

DONALD TRUMP TO HOST FIRST DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IN LAS VEGAS

September 14, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – While the current media focus is on the second Republican presidential debate happening this week on CNN, the election-weary U.S. population is eagerly anticipating the first Democratic presidential debate scheduled for October 13 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Earlier, the Democratic National Committee announced that there will only be six debates among the small field of presidential candidates (as opposed to the 36 declared Republican presidential aspirants).

The first Democratic debate will air on CNN and will also be broadcast by Salem Radio. It will be held at the grand ballroom of the Trump Towers in Las Vegas.

The Republican presidential candidate frontrunner has graciously offered the Trump Towers as the site the Democratic debate.

It is no secret that Trump has a history of cordial relationship with the Clintons, so offering his Las Vegas landmark property comes as no surprise to many.

In fact, one of the six Democratic debates is scheduled in Miami, Florida, and Trump has offered his golf resort in Doral, just a few miles from Miami, as the venue for that particular debate. It was the site for this year’s Miss Universe beauty pageant.

There is a good side to Trump, after all.