Clinton aides on Monday blasted Trump’s tax proposal as overwhelmingly advantaging the wealthiest Americans, with Clinton’s policy brass arguing that Trump’s cuts in tax rates are not as equitable as he claims. Right now Trump’s plan calls for calls for the top rate to be cut from 39.6 percent to 25 percent. The presumptive Republican nominee has been firm in expressing his belief that wages are too high. In November, Trump told MSNBC’s Morning Joe, “Wages are too high. I don’t think that’s going to the final plan”, he said.
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Trump has left himself a lot of room to negotiate since his plan calls for big cuts in the top tax rates. “We’re not going to be able to compete against the world”, he said.
On Sunday, however, during an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News’ This Week, Trump implied that taxes on the wealthy will go up. That’s what I want. Trump added that he is “so much more into the middle class” in his approach to tax reform.
“Sure, it’s a change”.
He also apparently reversed his position on the minimum wage, telling the programme: “I’m allowed to change”.
“But my real minimum wage is going to be – I’m going to bring companies back into this country and they’re going to make a lot more than the $15 even”, he said.
He offered another interpretation on NBC’s Meet the Press, citing his travels on the campaign trail. He said he would leave the issue up to the states, because some places, such as NY, are more expensive to live in.
So Trump is not talking about an increase in taxes on the wealthy per se, but rather an increase in taxes in his proposal. “But I would say let the states decide”, he said.
Greg Sargent added, “There is, understandably, a strong temptation on the part of political and media observers to catch candidates out for flip-flopping or changing their positions”.
All of this comes as Trump is still struggling to unite the party.
The frontrunner attacked vanquished GOP rivals, Sen.
In an unusually reserved interview, Trump admitted that he was “blindsided” by House of Representative speaker Paul Ryan, who said he wasn’t ready to support him.
“I’m not under the illusion that that’s going to pass. They’re going to come to me”. That’s what it says. “And they may go up, you know”, he began.
The Republican Party splitting apart as it turns its back on its new presumptive nominee, Donald Trump. Although he often spoke of the need to keep the minimum wage steady, he is now saying “people should get more”. And that’s a binding pledge. You know, we hear all about Obama, we hear all about. Because they have been absolutely shunned.
“I’ll do it as fast as the auditors finish”, he said Sunday.
“It’s important for Donald Trump to express his appreciation for veterans – not John McCain, but veterans who were incarcerated as prisoners of war”, McCain said. “I think it would be better if it were unified, I think it would be – there would be something good about it. But I don’t think it actually has to be unified in the traditional sense”. I helped him, really helped him.
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I sympathize with journalists who fell for Trump’s trick; the candidate has deliberately used confusing language that has muddled the conversation.
