It’s a fearless presidential candidate who will increase taxes even before he’s elected – but so goes Donald Trump. He also sees a big loophole for the wealthy in Trump’s plan for “pass-through” income.
Advertisement
He added: “Trump is for lower taxes.Clinton for higher taxes ($40,000 per American, $1.2 trillion)”.
The new letter also arrives amid heightened concerns over Trump’s posture toward Russia – the former reality TV star has lavished unusual praise on the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, while his campaign manager, Paul Manafort, has been scrutinized for holding ties to Russian politicians.
While Trump’s speech was billed as his economic vision for the country, he spent a large amount of his almost hour-long address to 1,500 people at the Detroit Economic Club lashing out against Clinton, his Democratic opponent. He dismissed Clinton as representing “the exhausted voices of the past”.
“She also knocked Trump’s recently announced economic team, saying “.@realDonaldTrump’s econ plan was written by rich corporate insider advisors to make the economy even greater for rich corporate insiders”.
It was a message geared toward the blue-collar workers who have either lost their jobs or have seen stagnant wages for years. This should end media complaints about lack if details.
Fifty senior Republican national security officials issued a stinging rejection of their party’s White House nominee Donald Trump on Monday, warning he would be “the most reckless president in American history” if elected.
“The names on this letter are the ones the American people should look to for answers on why the world is a mess, and we thank them for coming forward so everyone in the country knows who deserves the blame for making the world such a risky place”, Trump said.
Trump promised, “in the coming weeks, we will be offering more detail on all of these policies” and, “in the days ahead, we will provide more details on this plan and how it will help you and your family”, and “I will unveil my plan on this in the coming weeks”, and “in the coming days, we will be rolling out plans on all of these items”.
Citing local poverty and unemployment rates that he argued were at least twice the nation’s average, trump, Trump claimed: “The city of Detroit is a living breathing example of my opponent’s failed economic agenda – every policy that has failed this city, and so many others, is a policy supported by Hillary Clinton”.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has endorsed Trump for president and was once considered as a vice presidential contender, called Trump’s speech “a home run”.
“I don’t think that Britney Spears needs a child care credit”, Moore said. American workers have paid taxes their whole lives, and they should not be taxed again at death – it’s just plain wrong. Boom, I’m picking Trump.
Trump has anxious many leading Republicans in recent weeks with a string of controversies and fights, notably with the Muslim American parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq and prominent Republicans up for re-election. Some frustrated Republicans plan to back a conservative alternative, former Central Intelligence Agency officer Evan McMullin.
Meanwhile, Republican nominee Donald Trump, who last week campaigned in Daytona Beach and Jacksonville, is scheduled to flesh out his own plans to grow the economy with a luncheon speech to the Detroit Economic Club. Despite a recording of the event that clearly shows Clinton saying ” we aren’t going to raise taxes on the middle class”, the Trump campaign has distributed a video falsely captioning the video with, “We are going to raise taxes on the middle class”.
“Now, they tried to make his old, exhausted ideas sound new”, Clinton said. A Washington Post-ABC News poll released on Sunday gave Clinton an eight-point lead, 50 percent to 42 percent.
Advertisement
“Calling Trump unqualified to be commander in chief is tough, but also asserting that he’s lacking in character and understanding of our basic values is really pretty fantastic”, said Tommy Vietor, a former National Security Council spokesman in Democratic President Barack Obama’s administration.
