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Go ask questions of Trump about middle class claims today
Questions show no matter how many times its called middle class tax relief, its benefits show otherwise

Trump's daughter, Treasurer Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and local representatives hold sessions today to promote the tax plan as a middle class tax cut. This is an opportunity for interested people to get involved, ask questions, and see who this plan really benefits. America is great when the people get involved and ask questions. The more involved people are with issues, the more representative policies reflect the people's best interest. So no matter where one stands, this is an opportunity to be heard, seen, or even ask questions. Don't become the forgotten people. Brainstorm and explore your questions, to get answers and get a policy that works for all of US.
Basic fundamental questions:
Isn't there a better way to help the Middle Class than providing the rich and corporations massive relief?
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How does temproray relief for families while permanent relief for businesses help the middle class?
Can you explain why the propoganda foucses on the corporate statutory rate of 35% when the effective rate is substantially lower and actually very comeptitive internationally?
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Can you explain how eliminating individual deductions but keeping corporate ones is fair? Can you also explain how keeping corporate deductions will not reduce the taxable rate from 20% to say 5% or 10%, much like it has reduced the 35% rate to 18-22%?
Some can say, there is something seems fundamentally unfair about a tax plan that requires individuals to give up deductions to get moderately lower tax rates for the next few years, but does NOT act corporations to give up their deductions for MASSIVE & PERMANENT tax rate cuts of 40% or more. This fundamental unfairness that treats corporations and the wealthy better than the rest of us, then eliminates the protections of yearly and long-term abuse by eliminating the tax safety net for such filers, the AMT, and the long-term accumulation of more than $5.5 MILLION in assets known as the Estate tax.
Some more specific questions:
1. Can you explain how eliminating an estate tax that only applies to .2% of the population that has more than $11 million in assets per couple helps the middle class?
2. Can you explain how taxing corporations at a lower rate than you tax citizen income helps the middle class put more money in their pockets?
3. Can you explain how expanding the deficit so that the GOP will next focus on cutting the social safety net of Medicaid, Medicare, etc., helps the middle class, retirees, and those that are struggling?
4. Can you explain how eliminating citizen and family deductions in exchange for small (if any) tax cuts while allowing corporations to keep their tax deductions for massive cuts, helps the middle class? For example"
- Why cut deductions for State & Local Income tax that funds community needs but allow corporate taxes to be deductible?
- Why eliminate the Mortgage Interest deduction that helps people afford a home but allow corporations to deduct their losses?
- Why eliminate citizen deductions for unrecovered losses due to fire, floods, burglaries when this help US recover from traumatic events?
- Why eliminate deductions for Education Expenses for teachers and students when we are trying to increase the level of education for our country and trying to improve our work force competitiveness in the world so we can full our own jobs instead of corporations like Trump firing foreign workers as they have at the Virginia owner and Mara Largo?
- Why eliminate Student Loan deduction and reduce college education credits when we are trying to increase the level of education for our country and trying to improve our work force competitiveness in the world so we can full our own jobs instead of corporations like Trump firing foreign workers as they have at the Virginia owner and Mara Largo?
- Why eliminate citizen deductions for Moving expenses but allowing corporations to deduct the same even when the corporations are going overseas like many of Trump , including your (Ivanka Trump's) own businesses?
- If a pro-family tax plan, why eliminates extra deduction for children by giving couples & families the same deduction?
If this tax plan is supposed to help put more money in the pockets of families why does it create more taxable events for families, raising their income, and therefore their taxable income level? For example:
- Why does the plan make previously waived tuition taxable income?
- If trying to help families and child -care, why does the plan penalize people by making Employer provided dependent care reductions and benefits become Taxable?
If this tax plan is supposed to be focused on the rest of US, the middle class and those trying to reduce the record wealth inequality in America, why does this plant expand and protect tax breaks specifically tailored to the wealthiest Americans and Trump properties
- Why does it reduce the level of taxation by allowing the wealthy to use expensive lawyers and accountants to create L.L.Cs to reduce their taxable level from the highest rate to a new, lower Pass Thru rate of 20% rate?
- Why does it not limit the exemptions for farming, art museums, etc. that have been perverted by expensive tax lawyers and accountants to create small museums and farm aspects to their properties so they can claim a deduction on their entire real estate assets?
- Why does it still allow deductions for Golf Courses?
- Why do both plans will allow Business Real Estate Taxes but eliminate or cut individual real estate tax deductions?
- Why if America first and cutting individual moving expense, does it protect corporation deductions for moving expenses even if they are moving overseas?
- Why when increasing the level of taxable income for middle-class (outlined above) does the plan cut taxes on the wealthier Americans by increasing threshold from $500,000 to $1 Million saving them tens of thousands of dollars each?
How does this plan help all of US by eliminating or reducing taxable events for a small fraction of America?
- Estate tax applying to those assets over $5.5 Million (lost $500 Billion tax dollars)
- Alternative Minimum tax that previously insured some payments (lost $440 Billion tax dollars)
- Reducing Medicare Spending by $500 Billion
- Reduce $1 TRILLION to other social safety net programs