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Pro-Clinton activists protest Donald Trump’s speech in Detroit

Personal taxes would drop too, with seven tax brackets compressed to just three.

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Many workers’ “tax rates will be zero”. He ultimately backed Ryan on Friday after a tumultuous week of intra-party fighting.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has sought to regain momentum with an economic speech in which he floated new tax breaks and cuts to regulation, but was repeatedly interrupted by protesters.

Five are named “Steve” or “Stephen”, and Trump’s National Director of Policy, Stephen Miller, was included in the announcement as someone who will be working with Trump’s Economic Advisory Council. Leading up to his economic policy address, the Trump campaign released an initial list of economic policy advisors, who were plucked from the private sector.

Trump reiterated to the audience his belief that Hillary Clinton wants to raise taxes on the middle class by implementing a $1.3 trillion tax increase.

“She is the candidate of the past, ours is the campaign of the future”, Trump said amid widespread applause.

“These reforms will offer the biggest tax revolution since the Reagan tax reform”.

She says no family should spend more than 10 percent of its income on childcare.

Key quote: “The city of Detroit is the living, breathing example of my opponent’s failed economic agenda”.

“She supports the high taxes and radical regulation that forced jobs out of your community.And the crime policies that have made you less safe.And the immigration policies that have strained local budgets.And the trade deals like NAFTA, signed by her husband, that have shipped your jobs to Mexico and other countries”, Trump said.

“We need much, much faster growth if we’re going to have wages rising and salaries rising and middle-class incomes rising”, he said.

The biggest proposal is his call to place a moratorium on any new regulations of the financial industry.

The GOP nominee’s plans also include proposing a 15 percent corporate tax rate, an idea that is on his website.

He says, “We will make America grow again”.

“It’s all very well planned out”, Trump said after security had led several protesters out.

He also touted protectionist policies for the United States, and slammed both the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

The company said in July 2016 visits to Trump properties fell 14 per cent year on year with places in New York, Chicago and the Trump Taj Mahal the hardest hit.

The policies proposed would benefit America’s wealthiest.

A new ABC-Washington Post poll puts Clinton 8 points ahead of Trump, but the two are about even on who voters trust to deal with the economy.

“A Trump presidency would cause damage to the American economy and working families”, Clinton’s economic advisers argue in the memo.

Former U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, whose support of Trump has been lukewarm, was asked on Fox News Sunday if Trump’s plans are economically sound.

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The Clinton campaign repeated numerous same blasts against Trump it has used before – arguing that he rooted for the housing crisis and would allow the U.S.to default on its debts.

Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks to the Detroit Economic Club at the Cobo Center in Detroit Michigan