During his economic speech today in Detroit, Donald Trump claimed that Hillary Clinton “plans another job killing $1.3 trillion tax increase.” Yet multiple nonpartisan analyses concluded that almost all of Hillary Clinton’s proposed tax increases would fall on the top 10 percent of taxpayers, hitting the top 0.1 percent the hardest.
TRUMP’S CLAIM: “Hillary Clinton “plans another job killing $1.3 trillion tax increase.”
WHAT THE EXPERTS HAVE PREVIOUSLY SAID ABOUT HILLARY’S PLAN:
Multiple nonpartisan analyses concluded that almost all of Hillary Clinton’s proposed tax increases would fall on the top 10 percent of taxpayers.
Analyses by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and the pro-business Tax Foundation both concluded that almost all of the tax increases proposed by Clinton would fall on the top 10 percent of taxpayers. Hardest hit would be the less than 0.1 percent of taxpayers who earn more than $5 million per year.