Senator Elizabeth Warren again played the role of Democratic attack dog on Monday, as she slammed Donald J. Trump’s economic plan after the Republican presidential candidate laid out his policies in a Detroit speech. A Washington Post-ABC News poll over the weekend found that 73 percent of Americans disapproved of how Trump treated Khizr and Ghazala Khan, along with 56 percent who “strongly disapproved”. “All we have to do is stop relying on the exhausted voices of the past”, he told the audience.
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He said he would also set a 10 percent tax on the “trillions of dollars from American businesses that is now parked overseas” and gets repatriated into the US. But that was before Trump had formally accepted the Republican nomination. The Tax Policy Center estimates Trump’s plan would add $9.5 trillion to the deficit over the next decade.
Trump said on Monday his plan would include imposing a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations and a reduction to the tax burden on working parents with childcare costs.
So just imagine Donald Trump in the Oval Office facing a real crisis. While it’s en vogue to claim that no one should trust “the establishment”, most people accept the fact that experience matters – and when someone with experience, like Susan Collins, tells you they won’t vote for Trump, it gives an intelligent person pause. Hillary Clinton’s is just four more years of Obama, and we can’t afford that! “But we are going to look boldly into the future”. The Maine senator listed out three events which led her to decide to not vote for Trump.
“None of us will vote for Donald Trump”, said the statement, which noted that some signatories also have doubts about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
“I am not going to raise taxes on the middle class, but with your help we are going to raise it on the wealthy, because that’s where the money is”.
Collins joins a rebellious Republican niche refusing to endorse Trump’s bid for the White House, putting her alongside conservative mega-donor and Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman.
Collins’ announcement comes on the same day 50 former top Republican national security officials declared their opposition to Trump’s candidacy, signing an open letter in The New York Times warning that Trump would be “the most reckless president in American history”. They served under Republican presidents from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush.
The signatories, some of whom worked for more than one Republican president, included former Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Hayden, who also headed the National Security Agency; former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff; former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte; and two former US trade representatives, Carla Hills and Robert Zoelick.
“We are convinced that he would be a risky president and would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being”, they wrote in an open letter.
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And from the Washington Post: “Seeking to put the most hard stretch of his campaign behind him, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used a major economic speech Monday to reach out to two voting blocs that remain critical to his faltering chances of winning in November: traditional fiscal conservatives and disaffected blue-collar workers”.
