Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Chief economist of the AFL-CIO declares Trump tax plan a con game
against working people
with
Dr. William Spriggs, Chief economist of the AFL-CIO and professor
of economics at Howard University.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka responded to the Trump tax plan saying
“it is nothing but a con game, and working people are the ones they’re trying
to con. Here we go again. First comes the promise that tax giveaways for the
wealthy and big corporations will trickle down to the rest of us. Then comes
the promise that tax cuts will pay for themselves. Then comes the promise
that they want to stop offshoring. And finally, we find out none of these things
are true, and the people responsible for wasting trillions of dollars on tax
giveaways to the rich tell us we have no choice but to cut Medicaid, Medicare,
Social Security, education and infrastructure”. Dr. Williams Spriggs tells us
why the tax plan is little more than an across-the-board tax cut for America’s
millionaires and billionaires and wealthiest corporations at a time of massive
wealth and income inequality – and that’s morally repugnant and bad
economic policy to boot!
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To Download or listen to this 27:41 minute program,
https://archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesTrumpTaxPlan-aConGameAgainstWorkingPeople
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