US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will release her 2015 tax returns and her running mate, US Senator Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton will release the last 10 years of their tax returns within days, sources said.
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Donald Trump digs in as Hillary Clinton continues to go after Republican votes preparing for her major economic speech in Detroit Thursday. Clinton wants to increase taxes, mostly on the wealthy, to pay for her new programs.
She said Trump’s economic plan would also break his promise to workers, warning it would enrich only corporations and Trump himself.
She also called for a more “progressive, patriotic tax code” that would force corporations to pay back any tax breaks they received from the USA government, should they decide to relocate overseas. But Clinton has echoed Trump in saying she opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that she once supported and hasn’t been ratified by Congress. Gary Hufbauer, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, says the agreement would be a net benefit for the US, which has lower trade barriers than other participating nations.
“I oppose it now, I’ll oppose it after the election, and I’ll oppose it as president”, she said, though she did not mention her previous support of the trade agreement.
Trump said Clinton has failed on the economy for years, pointing to her unfulfilled Senate promise to upstate NY to create 200,000 jobs.
On the other hand, Clinton said in her speech that she supports more government regulations, and would expand upon current regulatory authorities.
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday sternly warned her Republican presidential rival Donald Trump about his “casual inciting” of violence, saying his startling remarks suggesting gun rights supporters could act against her “crossed the line”. On Monday, Trump painted a bleak picture, saying policies under the Obama administration had crippled states like MI.
Trade is one of the most hotly contested economic issues between the Democratic and Republican nominees. He talked only of failure, poverty and crime.
Contrasting her own message with Trump’s, she said, “He is missing so much about what makes MI great”. They oppose Mr. Trump’s unorthodox campaigning style and his rhetoric.
She said she will work to put Americans to work building and modernizing roads, airports, bridges, ports. Stewart reported interviewing “numerous real estate and tax professionals” who said the wealthy real estate developer could legally pay little or no taxes. “America isn’t afraid to compete!”
Clinton contended those policies would boost Trump, who claims an often disputed net worth of $10 billion, more than they would aid working families.
Workers’ anxiety over trade deals has become a central theme in the 2016 election, and Clinton rejected the portrait Trump has painted that she is only pretending not to favour the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a planned deal which she had praised when she was secretary of state in President Barack Obama’s first term but has opposed as a candidate for the presidency. Instead, they’re winning gold medals.
The Democratic presidential nominee sought to seize momentum as Republicans – including Trump – struck an nearly defeatist note about their Election Day chances. After a long, detail-orientated primary campaign, Clinton has already presented a vision for the sort of legislation she’d like to see Congress pass if she’s elected to the White House.
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Note: We will be airing special coverage of Hillary Clinton’s economics speech in MI, beginning at 1:06 p.m. EST. “So it would be a totally different style and I think Hillary Clinton will not only carry Macomb County as Obama did, but carry MI”.
