Posted on 09/28/2015 9:20:30 AM PDT by DannyTN
The Goals Of Donald J. Trump’s Tax Plan
Too few Americans are working, too many jobs have been shipped overseas, and too many middle class families cannot make ends meet. This tax plan directly meets these challenges with four simple goals:
The Trump Tax Plan Achieves These Goals
The Trump Tax Plan Is Revenue Neutral
The Trump tax cuts are fully paid for by:
DETAILS OF DONALD J. TRUMP’S TAX PLAN
America needs a bold, simple and achievable plan based on conservative economic principles. This plan does that with needed tax relief for all Americans, especially the working poor and middle class, pro-growth tax reform for all sizes of businesses, and fiscally responsible steps to ensure this plan does not add to our enormous debt and deficit.
This plan simplifies the tax code by taking nearly 50% of current filers off the income tax rolls entirely and reducing the number of tax brackets from seven to four for everyone else. This plan also reduces or eliminates loopholes used by the very rich and special interests made unnecessary or redundant by the new lower tax rates on individuals and companies.
The Trump Tax Plan: A Simpler Tax Code For All Americans
When the income tax was first introduced, just one percent of Americans had to pay it. It was never intended as a tax most Americans would pay. The Trump plan eliminates the income tax for over 73 million households. 42 million households that currently file complex forms to determine they don’t owe any income taxes will now file a one page form saving them time, stress, uncertainty and an average of $110 in preparation costs. Over 31 million households get the same simplification and keep on average nearly $1,000 of their hard-earned money.
For those Americans who will still pay the income tax, the tax rates will go from the current seven brackets to four simpler, fairer brackets that eliminate the marriage penalty and the AMT while providing the lowest tax rate since before World War II:
| Income Tax Rate | Long Term Cap Gains/ Dividends Rate | Single Filers | Married Filers | Heads of Household | |
| 0% | 0% | $0 to $25,000 | $0 to $50,000 | $0 to $37,500 | |
| 10% | 0% | $25,001 to $50,000 | $50,001 to $100,000 | $37,501 to $75,000 | |
| 20% | 15% | $50,001 to $150,000 | $100,001 to $300,000 | $75,001 to $225,000 | |
| 25% | 20% | $150,001 and up | $300,001 and up | $225,001 and up |
With this huge reduction in rates, many of the current exemptions and deductions will become unnecessary or redundant. Those within the 10% bracket will keep all or most of their current deductions. Those within the 20% bracket will keep more than half of their current deductions. Those within the 25% bracket will keep fewer deductions. Charitable giving and mortgage interest deductions will remain unchanged for all taxpayers.
Simplifying the tax code and cutting every American’s taxes will boost consumer spending, encourage savings and investment, and maximize economic growth.
Business Tax Reform To Encourage Jobs And Spur Economic Growth
Too many companies – from great American brands to innovative startups – are leaving America, either directly or through corporate inversions. The Democrats want to outlaw inversions, but that will never work. Companies leaving is not the disease, it is the symptom. Politicians in Washington have let America fall from the best corporate tax rate in the industrialized world in the 1980’s (thanks to Ronald Reagan) to the worst rate in the industrialized world. That is unacceptable. Under the Trump plan, America will compete with the world and win by cutting the corporate tax rate to 15%, taking our rate from one of the worst to one of the best.
This lower tax rate cannot be for big business alone; it needs to help the small businesses that are the true engine of our economy. Right now, freelancers, sole proprietors, unincorporated small businesses and pass-through entities are taxed at the high personal income tax rates. This treatment stifles small businesses. It also stifles tax reform because efforts to reduce loopholes and deductions available to the very rich and special interests end up hitting small businesses and job creators as well. The Trump plan addresses this challenge head on with a new business income tax rate within the personal income tax code that matches the 15% corporate tax rate to help these businesses, entrepreneurs and freelancers grow and prosper.
These lower rates will provide a tremendous stimulus for the economy – significant GDP growth, a huge number of new jobs and an increase in after-tax wages for workers.
The Trump Tax Plan Ends The Unfair Death Tax
The death tax punishes families for achieving the American dream. Therefore, the Trump plan eliminates the death tax.
The Trump Tax Plan Is Fiscally Responsible
The Trump tax cuts are fully paid for by:
Current tax brackets have a top rate of 39.6%
Trump's top tax rate is 25%.
What world do you live in where 25% is greater than 39.6%????
Current tax brackets have a top rate of 39.6%
Trump's top tax rate is 25%.
What world do you live in where 25% is greater than 39.6%????
Hehe. Wouldn’t THAT be awesome?
“It will make the moochers think twice before they vote themselves more government goodies”
The moochers don’t work and have no income to be taxed.
This is an opening position, to be bargained over, haggled and tweaked in the sausage grinder that is our congress. While I could *live* with this, I think that *everyone* should have skin in the game and pay something, even if it is 5% or so. I also generally hate brackets, but that seems to be ingrained in people’s thinking.
Certainly it will be bargained over.
And it will be phased in with grandfather clauses to protect investments already made based on tax code. But it’s a start.
um.... did you bother to read it?
I WOULD VOTE FOR HIM FOR THIS ALONE
Note: It essentially abolishes the need for the IRS (in its current form, at least)
Yes. Agree with your points.
We live in Californicato Land and have our phds in how Californicator land taxes us. So we are aware of them.
With the exception of the Californicator income tax, the other taxes are a no brainer. Why, see my comment below re the sales tax. You only pay it when you buy something.
A sales tax is probably the fairest of all taxes. You don’t pay unless you buy something. Grocery Food and RX’s aren’t taxed in California.
Trump has spoken out on the need to bring government spending under control and to stop waste and fraud.
IMO nobody is better qualified to do that than Trump.
Trump has spoken out on the need to bring government spending under control and to stop waste and fraud.
IMO nobody is better qualified to do that than Trump.
Yes, that is true, but only to that extent. The object is to have many of those products that used to be manufactured in this country be manufactured again in this country. Thereby, jobs that used to be in this country will again be in this country. Why? Because it will be cheaper to produce the product here, locally, rather than manufacturing it in a foreign country with foreign, cheap labor and then shipping in back to this country in the form of imports.
In addition, we have heard for years the whining about cheap, foreign labor, currency manipulation to make the foreign goods cheaper, the dumping of products into the U.S. market and so on.
Now, when someone finally comes up with a plan to do something about it, the media says it can't be done; that those jobs a lost forever. And, many of the posters on this forum are full of doubt reiterating the media's anti-American, negative mantra that nothing will work to change the situation.
Nothing is forever and anyone with a will to do something can effect change, positively or negatively.
Look at the negative changes Obama has willed in the last 7 years. Positive will can effect change even more rapidly, but one just has to set one's mind to do so.
Flame away.
3. Doesn’t add to our debt and deficit, which are already too large.
HOORAY Trump
Hey, CONgre$$? Wake up.
Me too but I still prefer closing the IRS and a postcard tax return.
No question though (in my opinion) that this is a major improvement over where we are.
Everyone who works will still be paying payroll taxes, FICA and Medicaire, so everyone will still have skin in the game.
I like this plan...reduce the number of rates and cut the top rate. Eliminate the death tax and the marriage penalty. Reduce the corporate tax rate and extend that all the way down to small businesses. And eliminate loop holes that the very rich use to avoid paying anything. i like it.
It’s got a lot of good points, but I still dont like progressive tax increases based on income.
If it’ll get him elected, I’m for it.
What happens to payroll taxes? Most folks pay more payroll taxes than
federal income taxes.
Compared to the bs tax programs that Congre$$ has enabled/impowered the IRS to make our lives miserable. This plan is a wish come true.
This is what we need!
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