Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY), who last month became the first Congressman to endorse Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy, claimed on Tuesday that protesters at Trump’s campaign events are paid operatives working as part of the “Democrat playbook.”
It’s something that all the major presidential candidates — on both sides of the aisle — can agree on: The United States should not ratify the TransPacific Partnership trade agreement. Even Hillary Clinton, who was Secretary of State during the bulk of the agreement’s confidential negotiations, doesn’t think the TPP is a good idea anymore.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s tax plan would raise trillions in revenue by increasing taxes on the wealthy, according to the Tax Policy Center’s new analysis.
During a private fundraiser Wednesday night in Charleston, South Carolina, a Black Lives Matter activist took Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to task for racially loaded comments she made in the 1990s.
At a campaign event in South Carolina on Wednesday, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders criticized rival Hillary Clinton for her support of a bill that had serious ramifications for the poorest in the country who rely on welfare cash assistance.
Hillary Clinton called for a new “fair share surcharge” tax of 4 percent on multi-millionaires Tuesday, making the proposal a centerpiece of her official tax plan.
The rest of Clinton’s tax plan is built on more familiar ground. She wants to raise capital gains taxes on short-term investment earnings, end the carried-interest loophole and other deductions the wealthy use to drive their actual tax rates far below the statutory rates for their earnings levels, and charge higher estate taxes against a larger number of inheritances than current law, which exempts all hand-me-downs smaller than $5.45 million. In total, the campaign says Clinton’s plan would bring in $400 to $500 billion in new revenue over a decade.
