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Trump Economic Agenda: Corporate Tax Cuts, No TPP, Renegotiate NAFTA

HeadlineAug 09, 2016

In news from the campaign trail, protesters interrupted Donald Trump more than a dozen times during a speech at the Detroit Economic Club in which Trump laid out his economic policies. Trump’s proposals included corporate tax cuts and rejecting the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and renegotiating NAFTA.

Donald Trump: “All of our policies should be geared toward keeping jobs and wealth inside of the United States. Under my plan, no American company will pay more than 15 percent of their business income in taxes. In other words, we’re reducing your taxes from 35 percent to 15 percent.”

Trump announced his economic team on Friday. It includes 13 men, no women, several billionaires, an Oklahoma oil baron and one part-time professional poker player. One of the members is John Paulson, who made billions by betting against the housing market in the lead-up to the 2008 crash. We’ll have more on Trump’s economic speech later in the broadcast with Detroit auto worker Jacqui Maxwell, who interrupted the speech, and Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi.

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