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15 percent, while retaining three
rates — two of them higher than
that — for individuals. And he
used coded language to support
sending public taxpayer money
to private schools and away
from public schools and teach-
ers. His tax plan led Clinton to
point out the greatest beneficiar-
ies would be the rich, including
Trump himself.
She leveled that same pro-rich
criticism at Trump’s child care
plan. Trump said he’d propose
letting parents “fully deduct the
average cost of child care spend-
ing from their taxes.” Deduc-
tions benefit high-income earn-
ers by reducing their income, but
do little or nothing for others.
Tax credits help lower- and mid-
dle-income people more.
Putting it all together, “there
is a myth out there that he’ll stick
it to the rich and powerful be-
cause somehow, at heart, he’s re-
ally on the side of the little guy,”
Clinton said of Trump. “Don’t
believe it.”
She added: “Donald Trump
wants America to work for him
and his friends at the expense of
everyone else.”
Unions and their allies have
spent time and effort trying to
convince blue-collar workers
that Trump would hurt them, and
they cite his own anti-worker
stands and words and his use of
past trade pacts to import Trump
brand products made in overseas
sweatshops.
Clinton also took those swipes
at Trump, while pushing her own
economic ideas as a contrast. In
Warren, she proposed a five-year
$275 billion plan to rebuild U.S.
roads, bridges, railroads, airports
and other infrastructure.
The previous day, in a speech
in Des Moines, Iowa — another
Midwestern swing state — Clin-
ton said infrastructure erection
and revitalizing U.S. manufactur-
ing would create the largest U.S.
jobs program since World War II.
“These are good jobs and a lot
of them are good union jobs with
good pay and good benefits. See,
I have this old-fashioned idea
that the middle class of America
is what makes America’s econ-
omy work.”