And she claimed that Republican nominee Donald Trump’s tax plan would have a negative downstream impact on healthcare. Instead, she contrasted a more optimistic view of the country’s economy with what she dubbed as “outlandish Trumpian ideas” that have been rejected by both parties. Additionally, the aide says, she will break out a new attack on Trump’s tax plan saying it includes a “Trump Loophole” created to benefit his businesses and cut his own personal tax burden.
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“This is personal for me”, she said, explaining that her grandfather worked at a mill in Scranton, Pa. for 50 years: “And because he worked hard, my dad was able to go to college and eventualy start his own business”.
“I just don’t think insults and bullying is how we’re going to get things done”. “So my message to every worker in MI and across America is this: I will stop any trade deal that kills jobs or holds down wages, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership”.
“The answer is to finally make trade work for us, not against us”, Clinton said.
The bulk of their income – more than $6 million (about €5.4 million) – came from speaking fees for appearances largely made before Ms Clinton launched her campaign last April.
The IRS has said Trump can release his tax returns even while under audit. The Clintons over the years have made public details of their income taxes as far back as 1977, the campaign said. Trump has also called for infrastructure investment. But his remarks were quickly eclipsed by the latest in a series of controversial statements which Trump has spent much of past two weeks trying to clarify. Clinton says that includes new water infrastructure in Flint and Detroit.
Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager, said in May that he doubts he will release the taxes because they are “incredibly complicated”.
“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment”, said Trump. “It’s true that too often past trade deals have been sold to the American people with rosy scenarios that didn’t pan out”, Clinton told the crowd of factory workers.
Finally, a tax return could show what kind of financial ties Trump has to foreign countries – including Russian Federation, which has seemingly sought to meddle in the 2016 election through a possible email hack of numerous Democratic campaign entities. “Though the Second Amendment people-maybe there is, I don’t know”. Trump declined to do so.
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Mrs Clinton, meanwhile, launched an open appeal on Wednesday to independents and Republicans repulsed by Mr Trump’s comments.
