Hillary Clinton has been one of the forerunners in this respect, and yesterday hosted her first Facebook Q&A, answering questions on her “vision for a better economy”.
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“Black lives matter. Everyone in this country should stand firmly behind that”, she said. These aren’t just women’s issues, they are economic issues that drive growth and affect all Americans.
Hillary Clinton is coming to Greenville.
In New Hampshire in April, she singled out hedge fund managers who pay lower tax rates. He says that despite the state’s drift toward the Republican Party, she still has a chance of getting the vote from a state she knows so well.
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s economic agenda calls for higher taxes on companies that focus on short-term profits and high-speed trading instead of investing in workers. “I would not raise it above what it was during the Clinton administration”. “The increase in short-termism has grown in urgency since 2008, and the urgency of our solutions has to match it”.
Previewing a speech on Wall Street regulation slated for the coming weeks, Mrs. Clinton vowed to defend and expand the 2010 Dodd-Frank legislation regulating financial firms, and she repeated her promise to prosecute individuals as well as corporations for wrongdoing.
This week, Clinton will unveil a proposal to tax capital gains using a sliding rate scale based on the length of an investment, something at which she hinted during last week’s speech.
The new rates would be pegged to the duration of the investment, with short-term holdings taxed at a higher percentage.
Clinton’s own longstanding ties to Wall Street, both as a New York senator and two-time Democratic presidential contender, have made her suspect in the eyes of some of the Democratic Party’s most liberal voters. She believes we need to give these people a reason to improve the culture of their firms.
Clinton tiptoes around the issues, waiting until they have been tested to death by pollsters before producing a statement written by enough political hacks to go some distance towards addressing unemployment numbers. Asked what kind of pantsuit she prefers, Clinton said, “I never met a pantsuit I didn’t love” and linked to the merchandise section of her campaign website. “[Y]ou’re preaching to the choir”. “It’s a daily challenge”. McCaskill, after all, is defending Clinton, a candidate who has taken enormous sums of money from a Wall Street crowd that has introduced an extreme degree of inequality into the USA through its speculation and lobbying.
Since leaving the State Department in 2013, Clinton spent most of her time keeping the press – and questions in general – at arm’s length. Campaign reporters won’t like it, but it wouldn’t be surprising to see more and more of Clinton’s engagement with the media taking place under similarly controlled circumstances. “She won’t be able to talk about being the first woman president”. “This is part of what she does, she grinds it out”.
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In a Facebook question-and-answer session on Monday morning, Clinton responded to McConnell’s attack.
