More broadly, Clinton argued Thursday that Trump’s economic plan is weighted too heavily toward helping the wealthy and corporations and that it would “balloon the national debt”. “That would end up cutting off more jobs. the answer is to finally make trade work for us, not against us”, she continued, promising to “stop any trade deal that kills jobs or holds down wages including the TPP”. “And here’s something you don’t always hear enough of from Democrats: a big part of our plan will be unleashing the power of the private sector to create more jobs at higher pay”.
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Clinton then made an Olympics reference to slam her Republican opponent on trade.
“Hillary wants to essentially abolish the second Amendment”, Trump said in the rally, referring to the US Constitution’s clause that enshrines the right of Americans to carry firearms and weapons. This, at least, is the theory espoused by many Trump supporters.
Clinton zeroed in on Trump’s tax plan and his proposal to cut the corporate tax rate and the tax rate on business income to 15 percent.
During a Monday speech in Detroit outlining his economic platform, Trump promised that his administration would allow families to “fully deduct” child-care expenses from their taxes.
Clinton was expected to go on the offensive, attacking Trump and delivering what the New York Times described as “her first full-throttled rejection” of his economic policies. “Donald Trump wants to give trillions in tax cuts to people like himself”, Clinton said, speaking in Warren, Michigan.
She also said she would oppose any trade deals that would send American jobs overseas, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Both candidates chose tightly contested MI – specifically, the Detroit area – to make their updated economic pitches.
Trump, at a Tuesday rally in North Carolina, said Clinton as president would appoint judges who would gut the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will release her 2015 tax returns and her running mate, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton, will release the last 10 years of their tax returns within days, according to a source close to Clinton. On Monday, Trump painted a bleak picture, saying policies under the Obama administration had crippled states like MI. Trump has said he won’t release them until an IRS audit is complete, breaking traditional with every presidential candidate in recent history.
Addressing a rally in Florida on Tuesday, Trump told supporters that if elected president, Clinton will nominate liberal judges to the Supreme Court. As Mr. Taibbi has observed, Trump has captured the fact that Presidential campaigns have devolved into a sick joke, and exploited it into his present position.
This scenario assumes, I think, that Trump isn’t blown out by Clinton.
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Among them was a 2009 email in which Doug Band, a former official at the Clinton Foundation charity run by former President Bill Clinton, directed two Hillary Clinton aides to put Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire and Clinton Foundation donor Gilbert Chagoury in touch with a State Department official dealing with Lebanon.
