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http://livestream.com/freeplive/events/6116919Questions Americans should ask
1. Which candidate has a real plan for jobs?
2. Which candidate will assure fairness and fair taxation?
3. Which candidate will make a difference in your lives?
Trump economic plan will result in a 3.4 million loss of jobs. Clinton's plan will generate 10 million jobs. (per economists)
Clinton
-Plans to renovate country's infrastruction; job creation
-Help Detroit/Flint with fair housing, water systems, schools; job creation
-Connect every household to broadband by 2020; job creation
-Unleashing the private sector by seeding companies for hiring; program (Make It In -America for manufacturing growth)
-Bring back precision manufacturing to the US; job creation
-Expand incentives for manufacturing and other companies to return to the US; job creation
-Empower small business and entrepreneurs, simplify tax prep for small businesses; job creation
-Service sector employees deserve a decent wage
-Free college; debt free college; restructuring easier to restructure college debt
-A 4 year degree should not be the only path to a good job in America
-Support high quality union training programs; propose new tax credits to companies to offer paid apprenticeships
-Use of community colleges and HS's to learn trades
Trade
-China, other countries and companies have gamed the system, Congress has blocked trade improvements
-Make trade work for us, not against us; stop any trade deals includ. TPP that reduce wages and take jobs
-Appointment of Chief Trade Prosecutor, triple workers to monitor and levy tarriffs
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MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)-Exit tax for businesses that leave US
-Wall street/wealthy-Buffet rule,
-Add new tax on multimillionaires, close other loopholes that are unfair
-Will not scrap regulations include Wall Street reg's., instead will strengthen reg.'s
-Will not scrap Consumer Protection Agency (Trump will)
-Will not explode national debt. to give tax loophole to wealthy-Trump included
-Will not eliminate estate tax (like Trump) as it only benefits the wealthy. Average Americans are not affected by estate tax.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)-Quality affordable childcare-limit cost to families at 10%
-Trump plan would give wealthy families 30-40 cents on the dollar for child care; Clinton wants to expand child tax credit, which is not related to the wealthy
-Wants to see minimum wage raised to stimulate spending
-Clinton to protect Social Security
-Wants comprehensive immigration reform to also stimulate economy
-Wants to strengthen unions as a means of better working conditions for Americans
-Defend and improve ACA, choice of a public option for health care
Who can bring people together to get any of this done?
-Leadership that rises above personal attacks and name calling; bullying is not the appropriate approach for us
-Examples of legislation, governmental roles, programs-will make full use of opportunities to strengthen America together using all Americans
-Overturn Citizens United
-Expand voting rights
-Working for an America that benefits all Americans not just Donald Trump and his friends
-"Trumpian" economics
