Trump mixes facts, falsehoods to rip Clinton on the economy

[jpak]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-clinton-economy-226795

DETROIT — Donald Trump, whose campaign has tapped into economic anxieties and a nostalgia for a bygone American greatness, promised to be the president with an economic vision for a better future in a speech here Monday.

In an address that was interrupted at least 14 times by protesters, the Republican nominee outlined a number of changes to his original tax plan, aligning the income brackets with the plan proposed by Paul Ryan and congressional Republicans, while also proposing excluding childcare expenses from taxation, ending the estate tax and carried interest deduction and cutting taxes across the board.

Trump offered no details on how he intended to fund the cuts, other than promising to eradicate the country's trade deficit.

As he tries to put the worst stretch of his campaign behind him and finds himself trailing Democrat Hillary Clinton by significant margins, the reality TV star and real estate mogul portrayed himself as a successful businessman and clear agent of change in November’s election in contrast to the Democratic nominee whose campaign has sought to cast her as a “change-maker” over her 30 years in politics.


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[Gabi Hayes]

1. from the link...makes me think politico, right wing haven that it is, might be

starting to realize what the unthinkable alternative could be:

But Trump’s speech was full of falsehoods and misleading statements. He attacked Clinton for a “short circuit” moment in which she “accidentally told the truth” and said that she would raise taxes on the middle class, even though she has not. He stated, “No one will gain more from these proposals than low-and-middle income Americans”; the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, however, has concluded: “the largest benefits, in dollar and percentage terms, would go to the highest income households.” And Trump repeated a claim that the government employment figures are manipulated even though not a single serious economist has validated the claim.

still went too easy on him, especially in not going into detail about just HOW cynical that lie about the raising taxes manipulation was