During a speech to about 1,500 members of the Detroit Economic Club and their guests, Trump painted a grim picture of the USA economy, promising that, if elected, he would be the right man to fix it.
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Trump did not miss an opportunity to capitalize on the protests, sending out a fundraising missive to supporters just hours after leaving the stage.
“I am proposing an across the board income tax reduction especially for middle income Americans”, he said.
That single sentence was all Trump had to say, other than to promise more details in the coming weeks as he works on his proposal with his daughter.
The plan to be outlined before the Detroit Economic Club is also expected to include a call to exclude child care expenses from taxation.
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks to the Detroit Economic Club at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan August 8, 2016.
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Only 27 percent of voters think Trump has the temperament to serve as president, and 67 percent say he does not, pollsters found.
Donald Trump’s campaign has pulled his tax plan from his website ahead of a planned relaunch on Monday.
If elected president, the Republican nominee would also lower the business tax rate for corporations and small businesses to 15%, down from the current top rate of 39%.
Trump has largely avoided policy specifics in his campaign, focusing instead on broad goals.
“A group of left-wing protesters interrupted me over 10 times in an attempt to get us off message”.
Clinton’s advertised economic speech in Detroit comes amid a jobs tour she and her running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, launched after the Democratic convention.
“No family will have to pay the death tax”, he continued. And he proposed lowering income-based individual tax brackets to 12 percent, 25 percent and 33 percent.
Trump’s economic proposals were split between traditional GOP policies, like rolling back taxes and easing federal regulations, and ideas unpopular with the GOP majority in Congress, like scrapping trade pacts and pouring new money into railways, highways and other infrastructure.
“Trump is the candidate of the future”. When we do that, we’re comfortable that we can get the agenda and the narrative of the campaign back on where it belongs, which is comparing the tepid economy under Obama and Clinton, versus the kind of growth economy that Mr. Trump wants to build, ” he said.
That’s a change from September, 2015, when he proposed four brackets that would pay zero, 10 percent, 20 percent and 25 percent. The page had said his priorities were to provide middle-class tax relief, simply the tax code, grow the economy and avoid adding to the national debt.
“You’ll have to answer to women”, one of the protesters shouted and, according to the release, Detroit food server Sarah Messer yelled, “Why are you blaming the victims of sexual harassment?”
“We are not interested in economic plans that only help the top 1 percent”, Clinton said in St. Petersburg. Former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush have also withheld their support.
In a statement ahead of Trump’s speech, her campaign said his plan would give tax breaks to the wealthy and big companies and would hurt working families.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, left, and Republican presidential candidate Donal Trump.
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Pence used his remarks to talk about how he and Trump have become “fast friends” and contrasted the NY businessman’s outlook on America’s future with Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.
