Donald Trump Won’t Alter Tax Plan, Spokeswoman Says as Confusion Reigns
As is true with every other issue that he’s spoken on, Trump’s “plan” is whatever he thinks the particular audience in front of him wants to hear. In other words he has no real plan, he’s just mouthing words to make people think he does.
Since then, he has vacillated on his intentions — repeatedly saying wealthy individuals and businesses would pay more taxes if he were president, and then clarifying that he means the richest taxpayers would pay more than under his original tax-cuts plan, but less than under current law.
Compounding the confusion, Politico reported on Wednesday that two informal advisers — Larry Kudlow, a CNBC host, and Mr. Moore, an economic commentator — said they were helping Mr. Trump at his request and had proposed changes to slash the plan’s cost from $10 trillion in its first decade to $3.8 trillion. They attributed the estimate to the conservative-leaning Tax Foundation.
Kyle E. Pomerleau, the Tax Foundation’s director of federal projects, confirmed the estimate. But he said Mr. Kudlow and Mr. Moore in their public comments “left out a lot of details about how Trump’s plan could get from the $10 trillion to the $3.8 trillion” — details that conflict with Mr. Trump’s professed favoritism toward the middle class.
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