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SheenaR

(2,052 posts)
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 01:48 PM Apr 2016

Remember the backlash from the other side when Bernie said he would raise taxes?

http://www.atr.org/hillary-confirms-trillion-dollar-tax-hike-plan

Hillary Confirms $1 trillion tax hike plan

Clinton: I have connected up my proposals for the kind of investments I want to make with the taxes that I think have to be raised. So on individual pieces of my agenda, I try to demonstrate clearly that I have a way for paying for paid family leave, for example, for debt-free tuition. So I would spend about $100 billion a year. And I think it's affordable, and I think it's a smart way to make investments, to go back to our economic discussion, that will contribute to growing the economy.

Now I'm well aware that this is a heavy lift. I understand that. But I think connecting what I'm asking for to the programs, to the outcomes and results that I'm calling for give me a stronger hand, and that's how I'm going to go at it.

Daily News: So if I understand you correctly, if you look at your proposals for college costs and for family leave, for infrastructure investments...

Clinton: Well, that's a little bit different, because infrastructure investment, I'm still looking at how we fund the National Infrastructure Bank. It may be repatriation. That's one theory, or something else. It's about $100 billion a year.

Daily News: A hundred billion a year, so that comes out to about a trillion dollars...

Clinton: Over ten.

Daily News: ...over ten years.



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Remember the backlash from the other side when Bernie said he would raise taxes? (Original Post) SheenaR Apr 2016 OP
Yippee let's pay more for less... Kalidurga Apr 2016 #1
+1000 nt abelenkpe Apr 2016 #2
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