Cenk Uygur
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Trump Tax Reform Explained
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September 28, 2017
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September 28, 2017
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14:23Now PlayingAfter failing to repeal and replace Obamacare, Trump is turning to tax reform. Ana Kasparian, Bren Mankiewicz, Michael Shure, the hosts of The Young Turks, show you what’s in his plan. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. Join TYT
“INDIANAPOLIS — President Trump on Wednesday began a full-throttle push to slash taxes and salvage what is left of his foundering legislative agenda in Congress, proposing a politically challenging array of tax cuts for individuals and businesses that would constitute the most sweeping changes to the federal tax code in decades.
Mr. Trump, smarting from the latest defeat this week of his efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, cast his tax plan as an economic imperative and the fulfillment of a promise to his coalition of working-class supporters to deliver benefits in the form of lower taxes, better jobs and higher wages. But the president offered few details about how working people might benefit from a plan that has explicit and substantial rewards for wealthy people and corporations, including the elimination of taxes on large inheritances and deep reductions in the rates paid by businesses large and small.
“This is a revolutionary change, and the biggest winners will be middle class workers as jobs start pouring into our country, as companies start competing for American labor, and as wages continue to grow,” Mr. Trump told hundreds of supporters in a nondescript building at the Indiana State Fair Grounds. “This will be the lowest top marginal income tax rate for small and midsize businesses in more than 80 years.”
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Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Bren Mankiewicz, Michael Shure
Cast: Ana Kasparian, Bren Mankiewicz, Michael Shure
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