Trump mixes facts, falsehoods to rip Clinton on the economy
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 Novembers 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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