Instead, she’ll use her platform at a manufacturing company in Warren, Michigan, to undercut Trump’s approach.
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She stressed her commitment to small-business owners, citing her father’s drapery printing business. “I oppose it now”.
“If Team USA was as fearful as Trump, Michael Phelps and Simone Biles would be cowering in the locker room, afraid to come out to compete”, Clinton said, referring, respectively, to the US swimmer and gymnast. Moody’s previously said Clinton’s plan would make the economy “somewhat stronger” while Trump’s could lead to a lengthy recession.
“I can provide serious, steady leadership that can find common ground and build on it based on hard but respectful bargaining”, she said. “The answer is not to rant and rave – or to cut us off from the world”.
“If Team USA was as fearful as Trump, Michael Phelps and Simone Biles would be cowering in the locker room, afraid to come out to compete”, she added of the two star Olympians.
It’s well known that Trump wants to cut the top corporate tax rate from 35% to 15%.
Of late, Clinton and Trump’s economic comments have largely revolved around a battle over jobs, with each saying that they will usher in vast growth, particularly for those in declining industries and those lacking college degrees.
Were that proposal to became law, Clinton argued, income that Trump derives from his own businesses would be taxed at a lower rate than the incomes of millions of middle-class families, likely cutting his tax bill in half.
Clinton’s campaign did not issue a statement condemning the comment until about an hour after Trump spoke. Mrs. Clinton pointed to an economic turnaround in Detroit and across MI and chided Mr. Trump for describing the city in exceptionally bleak terms on Monday. He talked only of failure, poverty and crime. “He’s missing so much of what makes MI great”. Speaking to Fox News later on Thursday, Trump said he would cut business taxes to bring jobs back to the United States, while Clinton would have to double taxes to meet the increased spending on social programs in her plan.
“If you were a foreign power looking to weaken America, you couldn’t ask for anything better than Hillary Clinton as your president”, he said, addressing a group of home builders. “It’s going to be four more years of Obama, but it’ll be worse”.
Clinton focused on that contrast, as she went point by point over Trump’s proposals.
“You’d think it would be pretty simple for a grown man to keep his mouth shut sometimes”, said Seth Walls, 18, a landscaper from Virginia, who attended his first Trump rally yesterday.
Clinton described Trump’s economic agenda as “just a more extreme version of the failed theory of trickle-down economics, with his own addition of outlandish Trumpian ideas that even Republicans reject”. Trump continued his attacks calling President Barack Obama the founder of ISIS and Hillary Clinton the co-founder.
In December, Mr. Trump’s campaign released a letter from his personal physician, Dr. Jacob Bornstein of Lenox Hill Hospital in NY, in which Dr. Bornstein wrote that a recent medical examination showed “only positive results”.
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On Tuesday, for example, she slammed his promise to repeal the estate tax.
