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brooklynite

(94,571 posts)
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 04:46 PM Aug 2017

Trump to seize populist mantle for pitching messy tax overhaul

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump will launch a major push for a sweeping tax overhaul with a speech Wednesday in Missouri aimed at convincing his base — and the rest of the nation — that he has a fresh vision for “unrigging” the American economy and isn’t just repackaging the trickle-down economics of past Republican presidents.

It could be a tough sell for the president as he fights with saturation coverage of Hurricane Harvey and as Democrats prepare to frame Trump’s approach as a giveaway to corporate fat cats and the nation’s richest taxpayers.

Wednesday’s speech in Springfield is being built around the sale of tax reform as a populist policy, according to five senior administration officials.

The tax speech is being drafted by senior White House aide Stephen Miller, a leader of the nationalist wing of the administration. In Trumpian style, he'll try out new phrases for selling the policy like "Jump-start America" and "Win again."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/29/trump-tax-overhaul-populism-242134

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geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
1. tax cuts for rich people and corporations are exactly what the country
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 04:47 PM
Aug 2017

wants to hear about in the wake of Harvey.

More_Cowbell

(2,191 posts)
3. He's not expected to go into detail...of course
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 04:49 PM
Aug 2017

"Trump, however, is not expected to go into much detail about deductions and loopholes on Wednesday as congressional Republicans and the White House continue to haggle over which ones to target. The administration is leaving much of the detailed work to Hill Republicans on the major tax-writing committees."

Naturally. He's not a details person. But his base doesn't care, even though his lack of details about the wall indicated that it would *never* be built.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
6. But he* will lie and say it's the bigliest bestest yet**
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 04:56 PM
Aug 2017

* Comrade Casino, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

** best yet salesman swindle for the "new, improved" TrumPee-Style republican Trickle-Down-on-the-Proles package that is occultly designed to primarily benefit rich republicans.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
4. Stephen Miller is grossly unfit to write for ANYONE, let alone major policy for POTUS
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 04:51 PM
Aug 2017

That little worm is a disgusting example of classic Republican ratfuckery.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,316 posts)
9. So his plan is to say "we can cut loads of corporation and personal tax by stopping deductions"
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 05:37 PM
Aug 2017

but not be specific. He leaves it to Republicans in Congress to get specific, and when it turns out to be impossible, or increases the deficit too much, he'll blame it on them. This is just how he campaigned - promise everything, blame someone else when he has to deliver and can't.

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
10. Quick Trump...jet over to St. Louie to tell all those workers how baddddd
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 05:44 PM
Aug 2017

millionaires,multi millionaires and billionaires NEED that tax cut!!! Maybe you can talk to the MW workers who just had their throats CUT by the State legislature there and rolled back a $10.00 MW to 7.75.

Bet your plea will go over well!

lark

(23,099 posts)
11. Yeah, how's he going to sell the middle class that cutting their health insurance
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 06:01 PM
Aug 2017

is good for the nation so that rich can get huge tax cuts? Lies, lies and tons more lies is my guess. He certainly can't tell the truth, he wanted to cut FEMA and Floor Control by double digit percentages, cut Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare, all so he and his oligarch pals get tax cuts worth hundreds of thousands a year and they rest of us get shit on.

Cosmocat

(14,564 posts)
12. Only in America could a POTUS who hasn't released
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 06:13 PM
Aug 2017

His tax returns stake a position as a "populist" and demand tax reform.

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
13. and the corporate media
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 09:55 PM
Aug 2017

cover that steaming pile of sh*t with a straight face.

Will the average person watching corporate media news be able to figure out the actual policy implications?

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