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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 01:06 PM Sep 2016

A $1 Trillion Lie

New York Times: “A few hours after Donald J. Trump publicly backed away from a $1 trillion tax cut for small businesses, campaign aides on Thursday privately assured a leading small-business group that Mr. Trump in fact remained committed to the proposal — winning the group’s endorsement.”

“The campaign then told the Tax Foundation, a conservative-leaning Washington think tank it asked to price the plan, that Mr. Trump had indeed decided to eliminate the tax cut.”

“Call it the trillion-dollar lie: Both assertions cannot be true.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2016/09/17/a-1-trillion-lie/
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