Mike and Co., The VP debate last night did not make much news on the economic policy front. Perhaps the most resonant moment of the debate came when Sen. Kaine drew the contrast between HRC’s “you’re hired” vision and Mr. Trump’s “you’re fired” trademark reputation. Kaine also started to scratch the surface on Mr. Trump’s unethical …
Mike & Co. — The legislative machinery necessary to enact a CR — representing as much progress on the FY17 budget as Congress can make and keep the government running after Friday, the last day of FY16 — has been set in motion. Adjournment is imminent. We’ll go over the final CR then. But the week’s …
Mike & Co. — As the candidates refine their policy positions, think tanks, bloggers, journalists, and pundits try to make sense of it all for us. Sometimes there is spin, intentionally and unintentionally, as mistakes or misconceptions get amplified in the media echo chamber. So it matters who is publishing the report or the poll …
Mike & Co. — In a speech before the Economic Club of New York yesterday, Trump laid out a passably detailed economic plan. Some of the speech provides marginally clearer outlines of previously stated tax policy. The rest of it walks back the most egregious and heavily criticized aspects of his las major economic policy address …
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Mike & Co. – Over the last 48 hours, Donald Trump has elaborated on his immigration policy, noting that while many illegal immigrants would be deported, those not deported would instead pay “back taxes.” While widely reported as a “softening” of his traditional rhetoric, these new details raise serious questions about how tax delinquency could be used as a legal …
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Mike & Co. — Yesterday when HRC released her detailed agenda for promoting and facilitating small businesses, she called the plan an outgrowth of HRC’s numerous conversations with small business owners over the past several months. From the beginning, HRC has said she wants to be the “Small Business President.” Recently citing her father’s experience …
Mike & Co., As Donald Trump continues the drawn-out process of providing details of his tax agenda, it has become abundantly clear that his plan stands to benefit the rich at the expense of lower- and middle-class Americans. Even more audacious — he appears to be running with three Achilles heels: the Trump loophole, whereby pass-through …
Mike & Co. — Today, HRC and Sen. Tim Kaine released new tax returns, HRC to supplement her previous release of 30 years of returns and Kaine to reveal his tax practices over the past decade. As you know, Trump continues to refuse to release any of his tax returns from the past 40 years, citing an IRS audit as …
Mike & Co., Donald Trump described his economic policy agenda — “Trumponomics” — in his Detroit Economic Club speech on Monday. His remarks, rife with falsehoods, inaccuracies, and deliberate misinterpretations of both policies and facts, are subject to rebuttal by HRC in the same city tomorrow, on a range of points laid out below. Trumponomics, as …
Mike & Co., This Tuesday, Donald Trump announced his intention to seek to improve the state of American infrastructure with an investment of over half a trillion dollars, financed through a bond program. The lack of details stands in contrast with HRC’s highly developed infrastructure agenda, which features an investment of $275 billion, including an infrastructure bank and a …
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