Gupta’s question merely asked Trump to respond to her father’s previous comments. Trump’s plan would allow any earner to have a pretax child care account, and unused money would not be forfeited.
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Gerald Stewart of Altoona was attending his fourth Trump rally.
In order to have a hope of winning Pennsylvania for the GOP for the first time since 1988, Trump must improve his standing in the suburban counties around Philadelphia, GOP strategists say.
Ivanka Trump was incorrect about elder care policy not being on Clinton’s website (it’s here) and also wrong about parental leave being absent (it’s here). Trump is proposing a federal program. So even if reducing unemployment fraud is not the way to pay for this program, it’s not insane to think these programs could be reworked to make room so that 2% of spending aimed at people out of work would go to parents taking leave to care for a newborn. “We have been looking into the Trump Foundation to make sure it’s complying with the laws governing charities in New York”, Schneiderman said. “I feel the same way about smoking, actually”.
Trump has put forward a very, very barebones childcare plan that has very real holes in it and would really only help wealthier families, and Republicans can’t even handle that.Even the hint of a new social program to help someone, ANYONE, other than fossil fuel barons has them in a tizzy. Clinton has an advantage with female voters, while Trump leads with men.
So yeah, Trump is totally full of it if he thinks ending unemployment fraud is going to be the basis for an effective maternity leave plan.
Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds and House Speaker Linda Upmeyer both spoke in favor of the plan at the event.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign has criticized Trump’s maternity proposal for focusing only on women and not fathers. More than 40 percent of USA taxpayers don’t make enough money to owe taxes to the federal government, meaning they would not benefit from a deduction.
Campaign officials said the Republican presidential candidate’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, a 34-year-old executive in the family’s web of companies with three small children, influenced the development of the proposals.
His plan also addresses a tax credit for employers who provide on-site child care for their employees. The campaign hasn’t detailed how that would happen.
Her plan, issued over a year ago, guarantees up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for a newborn or a sick relative, financed by an increase in taxes on the wealthiest Americans. Child care costs would be kept to 10 percent of the family’s income for most families, though Clinton hasn’t shown exactly how she’d achieve that.
Clinton has also proposed “tax relief for the cost of child care to working families”, though few specifics have been laid out. There are no details on exactly what expenses are deductible so it is hard to see how this benefits families that have one parent who stays home.
Asked by CBS’ Norah O’Donnell what the Trump family would do to prevent those potential conflicts, Ivanka explained that “as a private business, we can make decisions that are not in our best interest”. Married couples that bring in $499,999 a year will have their child care expenses reduced by 39.6 percent. The deduction would be capped depending on which state the family resides and the state’s average cost of care. In fact, when they do, it’s nearly more shocking.
Tax deductions and $1,200 in cash sounds like a good deal. The campaign argued that “child care” refers to ages 0 to 4 – before “early childhood education” begins at age 4 with preschool. “The lack of seriousness of this proposal is no surprise given his history of disrespecting women in the workplace and the fact there’s no evidence he ever provided paid family leave or childcare to his own employees”, Clinton campaign senior policy adviser Maya Harris said in a release.
What’s more, lower income families are less likely to itemize their deductions – a complicated, time-consuming process.
Trump’s announcement of his plan is causing a major crisis in Republican and conservative circles because it is a bold departure from the traditional conservative view.
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LISA DESJARDINS: How would Trump provide that access and care? The problem is that people who need the most help affording child care – poor and low-income families – frequently don’t have any federal income tax burden. This is clearly a bipartisan issue, but so far, the solutions unfortunately are not.
