“There’s a myth out there that he’ll stick it to the rich and powerful because, somehow, he’s really on the side of the little guy”, Clinton said Thursday in a speech in Warren, Michigan, near Detroit.
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Her appearance follows Trump’s own speech on the economy, which he also delivered in MI on Monday. Clinton says she opposes and will continue to oppose the Transpacific Partnership.
She also called for providing all Americans with access to high-speed Internet connection by 2020, and for building a new, more reliable power grid that uses renewable energy. “I want it to be us”. She added that the reduction in the corporate tax rate was simply a loophole for Trump to reduce his income tax.
“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.
Williams said Clinton is right to say that Trump’s companies would indeed pay half the current tax rate. They oppose Mr. Trump’s unorthodox campaigning style and his rhetoric. Not because he couldn’t pay them, but because he wouldn’t.
Already voters have become skeptical of his big business boasts, with 61 percent telling Bloomberg Politics pollsters, for a survey that was released yesterday, that they’re less impressed with Trump’s business savvy than they were when he started his campaign last summer. “I am the product of the American middle class”, said Clinton. But he said it’s harder to state definitively whether that would be lower than middle-class families’ rates, since it would depends on their income level, and thus tax rate, as well as the amount they pay in payroll taxes. Then, he and his heirs would receive an enormous gift through the elimination of the federal tax on inherited wealth for couples who have assets of $10.9 million or more.
At an appearance in Miami Beach, Florida, hours before Clinton’s speech, Trump said his rival “wants to tax and regulate our economy to death”. “But it would do nothing for 99.8 percent of Americans”.
At a factory in Warren, Michigan, that makes parts for the aerospace industry, the Democratic nominee offered a far more detailed picture of her plans for the economy than her contender, the billionaire real estate investor and reality TV show personality Donald Trump.
Mrs Clinton threatened to impose “targeted tariffs” on countries that did not play by the rules set out in free trade deals. She drew laughter and applause for accusing Trump of offering an “even more extreme version of the failed theory of trickle-down economics, with the addition of his own unique Trumpian spin – outlandish ideas that even many Republicans reject”.
She promised to appoint a official to police other countries’ compliance with trade deals and to file complaints against violators.
“We want to see the Clinton Foundation records showing how the Clintons sold our uranium to Russian Federation, ripped off Haiti and cut deals with oppressive regimes around the world”. That plan offers proposals to deal with everything from youth employment and jobs for returning prison inmates to working capital for entrepreneurs, billions of dollars for infrastructure repairs, and more.
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Bill Clinton also earned more than $17 million over the same period for consulting work for Laureate Education, Inc., another worldwide for-profit education system based in Baltimore that makes most of its profits from overseas operations.
