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Donald Trump's Tax Plan: Most Millennials would pay no Income Tax

<p>With his intuitive tax plan&comma; Donald Trump is reaching out to people who typically vote Democrat&period; If put into effect&comma; Trump&rsquo&semi;s plan would eliminate federal income tax on over half of Hispanic couples&comma; over 60&percnt; of the black population&comma; and nearly half of all millennial women&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Any individual &nbsp&semi;earning less than &dollar;25&comma;000 a year and any couple earning less than &dollar;50&comma;000 would pay no federal income tax under Donald Trump&rsquo&semi;s plan&period; To make up for this dramatic cut&comma; his plan would get rid of Wall Street&rsquo&semi;s favorite loophole &lpar;hedge funds&rsquo&semi; carried interest&rpar; and curb income deductions&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Multi-national corporations would be forced to pay a 10&percnt; tax or repatriate &dollar;2&period;1 trillion from overseas profits&period; Trump&rsquo&semi;s plan would also require American corporations in other countries to pay the U&period;S&period; federal income tax&comma; which I think is a great incentive to keep jobs in America&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The press applauded Trump&rsquo&semi;s plan for its attention to detail&comma; but attacked it as a major loss of government revenue &lpar;similar to how Reagan&rsquo&semi;s Tax Reform Act of 1986 was received&rpar;&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While Trump&rsquo&semi;s plan cuts the highest tax rate to 25&percnt;&comma; the removal of deductions and exemptions could mean that some people end up paying more&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Liberals may claim that tax cuts don&rsquo&semi;t benefit the economy&comma; but according to the chairperson of Obama&rsquo&semi;s cadre of economic advisers&colon; &ldquo&semi;Tax increases appear to have a very large&comma; sustained&comma; and highly significant negative impact on output&hellip&semi;tax cuts have very large and persistent positive output effects&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So why is the press so biased against tax cuts&quest; According to the way tax changes used to be measured&comma; tax cuts were almost always analyzed as being a net loss for the government&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; a rule passed earlier this year by House Republicans changes the way alterations to the tax system are measured&period; &nbsp&semi;The Congressional Budget Office &lpar;CBO&rpar; now uses &ldquo&semi;dynamic scoring&rdquo&semi; instead of &ldquo&semi;static scoring&comma;&rdquo&semi; meaning that more factors are now taken into account when tax changes are evaluated&period;&nbsp&semi;How a company will respond to the tax change in regards to investment and level of employment is now considered before changes are made to the tax system&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to this new system&comma; Trump&rsquo&semi;s clever plan will certainly be predicted to stimulate companies to increase investments&comma; hire more employees&comma; etc&period;&comma; in time leading to federal tax revenue&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Those who disagree with Trump&rsquo&semi;s proposition argue that it will actually increase the national debt&period; According to the Tax Foundation&comma; which still uses &ldquo&semi;static scoring&comma;&rdquo&semi; Trump&rsquo&semi;s tax plan would increase the national debt by &dollar;10 trillion over the next 10 years&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many conservatives are worried that with an even smaller percentage of the population paying federal income tax&comma; the government will not receive enough money to fund national defense&comma; national parks&comma; roadways&comma; and important government systems&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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