Hillary Clinton opened her speech on the economy Thursday in MI by slamming the address Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gave on the same topic in Detroit earlier this week, The Hill reported.”It was like he was in a different place when he visited Detroit on Monday”. Her campaign also released returns from running mate Tim Kaine and his wife. The campaign says the Kaines have donated 7.5 percent of their income to charity over the last decade.
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She called the Republican nominee’s plan to give tax breaks to Wall Street the “Trump loophole” and said his idea to give trillions of dollars in tax cuts to big corporations and millionaires would destroy the country’s national debt and cause massive cuts in education, health care, and environmental protection.
Republican and Democratic candidates in the last nine presidential elections – since Ronald Reagan in 1980 – have released tax returns at least for the previous year, according to PolitiFact. “What is he trying to hide?” Palmieri added. Trump says he won’t release them until Internal Revenue Service completes audits of his returns. (It’s never been clear what an everyday American is, other than a condescending term that poll-tested well.) Hillary and Bill Clinton reported $10.6 million in earnings in 2015; remarkable given that Hillary Clinton spent most of the year on the campaign trail.
For presidential candidates, releasing tax returns is a proxy for transparency.
In 2012, Mitt Romney released two years’ worth of tax returns.
“He said. we’re becoming a third-world country”.
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With her release Clinton, for her part, confirms that she is not exactly one of those “everyday Americans” her campaign pledged to serve. Incredulous that the media did not see sarcasm in his repeated statements about President Barack Obama and Clinton being the “founders” of the Islamic State group, Trump earned cheers when he said journalists “are the lowest form of life”. Not all of them.
