So none of you stupid assholes
who voted for him saw this coming?
TRUMP
TAX PROPOSAL WOULD MOSTLY BENEFIT NEW YORK'S WEALTHY
By
Hilary Russ
NEW YORK (Reuters) -
Nearly all of New York City's millionaires would receive big tax cuts under
President Donald Trump's proposed tax overhaul, while more than one-third of
moderate- and middle-income families would face increases, according to a
government report issued on Thursday.
City Comptroller Scott
Stringer said Trump's overall plan, as proposed during the Republican
president's campaign, would give more than $5 billion of tax cuts to city
dwellers. But almost two-thirds of that would go to those earning more than
$500,000, even though they bear just over one-half of the total tax burden.
"We already have
astounding wealth gaps across the city and across the country," Stringer
told a news conference. "The Trump tax code, if implemented, would only exacerbate
it."
The lower taxes for
wealthier residents would be achieved through lower marginal tax rates on
ordinary and capital gains income and the elimination of the alternative
minimum tax (AMT).
Last week, U.S.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Trump's objective is a tax cut for the
middle class, not the top 1 percent. He said he is aiming for passage of a
comprehensive tax overhaul by the time Congress takes its August recess.
Stringer's office
analyzed tax returns of 365,000 New York City households. It found that 92
percent of the city's millionaires would receive, on average, a tax cut of at
least $113,000.
Nearly half of single
parents who make $25,000 to $50,000 would experience a tax increase, it said.
The tax cuts, which
would reduce federal revenue by more than $2 trillion over 10 years, are
driving proposed budget cuts that would leave the city, home to 60,000 homeless
people, with a weakened social safety net, Stringer said.
"I find it
incredible that this guy, who comes from New York City, who has major
investments here, can't see what his proposal will do to his hometown," he
said. "And then when you scratch the surface, you realize that part of his
agenda and who benefits from it is Donald Trump himself."
Based on the limited
information available from Trump's now-public 2005 federal tax return, his
proposal to eliminate the AMT would have benefited him by $31 million that
year. In contrast, under his tax plan, a single mother raising two children on
less than $50,000 a year would face a tax increase of $464.
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