USA presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said in a speech at a MI factory on Thursday that her jobs and tax plans would better help middle-class Americans than the plans released earlier this week by Republican rival Donald Trump.
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Clinton is also planning to release her 2015 tax returns in the coming days, as she seeks to keep the pressure on Trump, who has not provided his.
The Democratic presidential candidate paid an effective federal tax rate of 34.2% previous year.
Hillary Clinton is set to go after Donald Trump’s economic agenda, aiming to portray her rival’s approach as offering handouts for the rich that could imperil the economy. The graphic included in the tweet added, “We don’t know for sure because he won’t release his tax returns”.
Mr. Trump has said he’s being audited by the IRS, and said it doesn’t make sense to release his returns in the middle of that audit.
“The answer is not to rant and rave, or cut ourselves off from the world”, she told a crowd of factory workers.
“Your move”, Clinton campaign aide Ian Sams said on Twitter, linking to the Democratic nominee’s returns.
Even while working to restore confidence in his campaign, Trump appeared to court controversy anew when he said late Thursday that he was open to trying Americans suspected of terrorism at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. “At the same time, they can’t turn to Donald Trump because he scares them”.
Trump presented the Federal Election Commission with a mandatory personal financial disclosure form in May and says this is enough.
Kaine talks about faith: Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine delivered a sermon-like speech Thursday to the Progressive National Baptist Convention.
The Clintons overpaid the Treasury and got a refund of more than $1 million.
Many Republican-leaning voters here in Bucks County said in interviews that Trump seemed nearly to be willfully trying to alienate them: He says the right things about repealing the Affordable Care Act and cutting taxes, but then appears to revel in insulting women and Mexicans and singling out Muslims for harsh treatment. Clinton has endorsed a rule named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett that would ensure those making more than $1 million a year pay a tax rate of at least 30 percent.
This week also saw 50 leading Republican security experts who cautioned that Trump would be a disaster for USA national security if elected president, citing that he lacks self-control and acts impetuously.
At a Clinton rally last week in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway BRKa.N conglomerate is based there, challenged Trump to meet and exchange tax returns.
“I’m under audit, too, and I would be delighted to meet him anyplace, anytime, before the election”, Buffett said.
A source close to Clinton said she would soon release her return, supplementing the decades of filings she and her husband have already made public.
The power couple reported earning $10.7 million in income in 2015, and claimed a tax liability of $3.6 million.
Tax experts worry that having such a huge disparity between the top rates for wage income (33%) and business income (15%) will cause a lot of people to recharacterize as much of their income as possible as business income.
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