{"id":105437,"date":"2016-08-08T16:55:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105437"},"modified":"2016-08-09T08:18:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T13:18:36","slug":"trump-tax-proposal-clinton-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105437","title":{"rendered":"Trump tax proposal, Clinton reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ClintonHilary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-105465\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ClintonHilary-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"ClintonHilary\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON\u00a0 (AP) Donald Trump is overhauling the income tax proposal he unveiled during the Republican primary and increasing the amount that would be paid by the highest-income earners.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says in an economic speech in Detroit that he wants to simplify the tax code to three brackets: 12 percent, 25 percent and 33 percent of income.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a change from September, 2015, when he proposed four brackets that would pay zero, 10 percent, 20 percent and 25 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says the &#8220;tax simplification will be a major feature &#8221; of his plan and calls it &#8220;the biggest tax revolution since the Reagan tax reform&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says, &#8220;We will make America grow again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Experts said his old plan would have increased the debt by as much as $10 trillion over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton is replying to Donald Trump&#8217;s economic address on Monday by saying it would benefit rich corporations and the wealthiest Americans at the expense of the working class. She&#8217;s promising to raise taxes on the wealthy because, she says, &#8220;that&#8217;s where the money is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During a campaign swing through St. Petersburg, Florida, Clinton wryly advised her supporters: &#8220;Don&#8217;t let a friend vote Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton says his scripted speech amounts to Trump scrambling to do &#8220;damage control&#8221; with a steadier performance designed to reassure Republicans who had grown nervous after a disastrous week.<\/p>\n<p>She says, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be fooled,&#8221; adding, &#8220;There is no other Donald Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton is expected to deliver an economic address in Detroit on Thursday. Aides are billing the speech as a response to Trump&#8217;s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0 (AP) Donald Trump is overhauling the income tax proposal he unveiled during the Republican primary and increasing the amount that would be paid by the highest-income earners. Trump says in an economic speech in Detroit that he wants to simplify the tax code to three brackets: 12 percent, 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":101404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105466,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105437\/revisions\/105466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/101404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}