She meant to try to make the case that Trump’s agenda would benefit him and his wealthy friends, and to characterize his plans as an update of “trickle-down economics”, according to her campaign. (An individual can leave the first .45 million to their heirs without paying any federal tax, while a married couple can leave $10.9 million.) “Now if you believe that he’s as wealthy as he says, that alone would save the Trump family $4 billion”, Clinton said of Trump’s proposal. “One nonpartisan expert at the Tax Policy Center described this plan as, I quote, a really nice deal for Donald Trump”.
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In one message, a top Clinton aide appears to be trying to get a million-dollar donor from the family’s Clinton Foundation access to the USA ambassador to Lebanon, after an executive at the foundation requested it.
Weinstein said the signatories aren’t endorsing a particular candidate and vary on whom they will support in November. The Clinton campaign has since disputed that characterization. She advocated for cracking down on companies that outsource jobs or move operations overseas in proposing an “exit tax”.
Clinton did make a key distinction on their trade views. The Democrat was correct when she noted that the Republican’s tax plans overwhelmingly favor upper-income households.
Neck and neck in Iowa: Trump and Clinton are almost tied in Iowa, a new poll shows. “That’s because Mr. Trump, as a prominent and active developer, can take advantage of some of the most generous tax breaks in the federal tax code to reduce his reported income to near zero, or even report a loss”, Stewart reported.
“He wants America to work for him and his friends at the expense of everyone else”, she said. She also talks about a new Trump Loophole that her opponent rolled out on Monday, and she mentions how much the Trump family would save if he successfully got rid of the Estate Tax.
Yet, there’s much to applaud in her vision, including plans to help families, raise the minimum wage, although less than in New York State, and tax multi-millionaires and corporations that move their headquarters overseas.
Unfortunately, neither candidate addressed affordable housing, a major need in our region.
Instead, Clinton reiterated several of the policy positions she adopted during her primary fight against Bernie Sanders, even while making a direct appeal to Independent voters and Republicans.
“It’s true that too often past trade deals have been sold to the American people with rosy scenarios that didn’t pan out”, Clinton told the crowd of factory workers.
And she made a quiet, Olympics-pegged case for globalization.
Still, Clinton’s opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is strongly supported by President Barack Obama, remains a visible place of agreement between herself and Trump.
“If you step back, you’ll see we’re all in this together”, she said.
While Clinton has wielded an advantage over Trump in nearly every poll taken since the Democratic National Convention, one subject area in which he has shown the most strength is economic issues. “Under Donald Trump’s so-called plans, we will lose about three and a half million jobs”.
Earlier this week, The Washington Post also reported on Clinton’s failed promise to lure 200,000 new jobs to upstate NY when she was a USA senator. In fact, statistics showed the region lost 31,000 payroll jobs during her tenure.
She also drew an implicit contrast between her family history and that of Trump, whose father Fred was a wealthy real estate developer and gave young Donald a headstart in life.
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Those apprenticeships, she added, could be a good alternative to a four-year college education. “He is missing so much about what makes MI great”.
