Donald Trump Jr. vows to take half his daughterâs Halloween goodies in a bad lesson on socialism
Donald Trump Jr.
You may remember  what seems like 15 years ago  when  Donald Trump Jr.  took to Twitter to offer a candy-related metaphor. In this metaphor  a bowl full of Skittles were refugees  but three of the Skittles were poison. There were many problems with this metaphor.
 Trump  is back at it with the candy-related metaphors  seeking to make a point about socialism using  his  daughter's trick-or-treating haul from Halloween on Tuesday night.
And yet again   he  doesn't seem to have thought it through completely.
Iâm going to take half of Chloeâs candy tonight & give it to some kid who sat at home. Itâs never to early to teach her about socialism. pic.twitter.com/3ie9C0jv2G â Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 31  2017
âI'm going to take half of Chloe's candy tonight & give it to some kid who sat at home â  Trump Jr.  declared. âIt's never to early to teach her about socialism.â
As with the Skittles tweet   Trump  appears to have cribbed this idea from someone else. Alex Jones's conspiracy-theory website posted something Monday featuring a video of kids having to turn over their candy in the name of âsocialism.â âWATCH: Kids Learn Painful Lesson on Socialism with Their Halloween Candy â reads the headline.
And as with the Skittles tweet  this one was met with plenty of skepticism and derision. There are clearly problems with it â not the least of which is that we're now using cute little kids on Halloween to make political points and that  Trump  misspelled âtooâ while talking about teaching  his  daughter something.
 Donald Trump Jr.  took to Twitter to offer a Halloween candy-related metaphor to socialism on Oct. 31. Here is how the Internet reacted. (Taylor Turner/The Washington Post)
Someone in the highest income bracket already pays 39.6 percent of their income beyond $418 000 (or beyond $470 000 if married filing jointly) in federal taxes  and in fact  the marginal tax rate for high earners in Trump's home state of New York is already around 50 percent. So that's actually about the correct amount of candy for  Trump  to confiscate -- if we're considering candy as "income" -- even in our capitalist country.
There are certainly ways in which the wealthy avoid taxes â which many noted in response to  Trump 's tweet â and income via investments is taxed differently. But the point stands that turning over a large chunk of candy would be expected from someone with the last name â Trump .â
And then there's the inescapable fact that  Trump 's daughter just literally accepted handouts from other people rather than earning the candy herself via hard work. As some noted  that's pretty socialism-y.
You may remember  what seems like 15 years ago  when   [TGT] took to Twitter to offer a candy-related metaphor. In this metaphor  a bowl full of Skittles were refugees  but three of the Skittles were poison. There were many problems with this metaphor.
 Trump  is back at it with the candy-related metaphors  seeking to make a point about socialism using  his  daughter's trick-or-treating haul from Halloween on Tuesday night.
And yet again   he  doesn't seem to have thought it through completely.
Iâm going to take half of Chloeâs candy tonight & give it to some kid who sat at home. Itâs never to early to teach her about socialism. pic.twitter.com/3ie9C0jv2G â Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 31  2017
âI'm going to take half of Chloe's candy tonight & give it to some kid who sat at home â   [TGT] declared. âIt's never to early to teach her about socialism.â
As with the Skittles tweet   Trump  appears to have cribbed this idea from someone else. Alex Jones's conspiracy-theory website posted something Monday featuring a video of kids having to turn over their candy in the name of âsocialism.â âWATCH: Kids Learn Painful Lesson on Socialism with Their Halloween Candy â reads the headline.
And as with the Skittles tweet  this one was met with plenty of skepticism and derision. There are clearly problems with it â not the least of which is that we're now using cute little kids on Halloween to make political points and that  Trump  misspelled âtooâ while talking about teaching  his  daughter something.
  [TGT] took to Twitter to offer a Halloween candy-related metaphor to socialism on Oct. 31. Here is how the Internet reacted. (Taylor Turner/The Washington Post)
Someone in the highest income bracket already pays 39.6 percent of their income beyond $418 000 (or beyond $470 000 if married filing jointly) in federal taxes  and in fact  the marginal tax rate for high earners in Trump's home state of New York is already around 50 percent. So that's actually about the correct amount of candy for   [TGT]   to confiscate -- if we're considering candy as "income" -- even in our capitalist country.
There are certainly ways in which the wealthy avoid taxes â which many noted in response to   [TGT]  's tweet â and income via investments is taxed differently. But the point stands that turning over a large chunk of candy would be expected from someone with the last name â  [TGT]  .â
And then there's the inescapable fact that  Trump 's daughter just literally accepted handouts from other people rather than earning the candy herself via hard work. As some noted  that's pretty socialism-y.