In a speech at a MI manufacturing plant on Thursday, the Democratic presidential nominee sought to draw a stark contrast between her plans for the economy, which she argued would benefit a broad range of Americans, and the Republican’s proposals, which she said are aimed only at helping people like him.
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She quoted a senior fellow at the non-partisan Tax Policy Center and said it’s a “really nice deal” for Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton gave a detailed economic speech in a factory in MI where she talked up the possibilities of the future, without mentioning the current occupant of the White House. “You can then draw your conclusions about our values”.
She also attacked Trump’s proposal to make most child-care expenses tax free, pointing out that the way it is structured makes it virtually certain that the greatest benefit would flow, again, to the wealthy.
Clinton vowed to name a chief trade prosecutor and impose “targeted tariffs” on nations that violate trade deals; Trump said he was willing to walk away from NAFTA if Mexico won’t renegotiate the terms.
Still, Clinton’s opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is strongly supported by President Barack Obama, remains a visible place of agreement between herself and Trump.
She called on two of the best-known American Olympians to take a dig at Trump’s position on trade.
Clinton used her speech to emphasize one point that Trump regularly uses to criticize her: trade deals.
Trump’s exercise in self-awareness was a marked departure from his usual tenor on the campaign trail, where for months at rallies he would tick through poll numbers showing him winning as if they were sports scores of his favorite team. She said Trump is afraid the USA can’t compete with other countries “even when the rules are fair”. “Mr. Trump was at 41 percent support and Mrs. Clinton was at 40 percent in a head-to-head matchup with 17 percent undecided, according to the Suffolk University poll of likely voters conducted Monday through Wednesday”, according to the Washington Times, which noted that the state has supported Democrats in six of the last seven presidential elections.
The site of Clinton’s speech, at a Macomb County company that expanded its auto supply business into the defense and aerospace industries, was selected with electoral politics in mind. “Trump must pound this home in MI and OH and he might win both states”. But she lost the Rust Belt state’s Democratic primary to Bernie Sanders, a vocal critic of free-trade deals. “Contrasting her own upbeat message with Trump’s, she said, ‘He is missing so much about what makes MI great”. It appears Clinton chose one time frame from Zandi’s report on the number of jobs she claims she would create and another time frame for when she said Trump’s policy would lose jobs. The 33 percent top income tax rate is higher than his originally proposed 25 percent. Lowering the corporate rate, now the highest of any major industrialized nation, would go a long way toward making American businesses more competitive internationally.
Her speech focused more on jobs than anything else; she said she will work to get the middle class tax relief, and accused Trump of creating a tax plan that would benefit only himself and the super-rich.
Billed as an unveiling of her economic plan, Clinton’s speech was mostly a retread of a laundry list of ideas that she has previously put forward.
“Our lower business tax will also end job-killing corporate inversions and cause trillions in new dollars and wealth to come pouring into our country – and into cities like Detroit”, he said.
“When he visited Detroit on Monday, he talked only of poverty, failure, and crime”, Clinton said of Trump. Incomes aren’t growing fast enough to keep up with costs like prescription drugs and child care.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters after giving a speech on the economy at Futuramic Tool & Engineering, in Warren, Mich., Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016. She argued the result of a series of “outlandish Trumpian ideas” would be a swelling national debt, massive cuts to domestic priorities and a slide back into a national recession.
