Clinton portrays Trump economic plans as handouts for rich

This is an opinion column.

Two presidential candidates came to MI bearing their respective economic messages this week.

Hillary Clinton is set to go after Donald Trump’s economic agenda – aiming to portray her rival’s approach as offering handouts for the rich.

“He’s offered no credible plans to address what working families are up against today”, Clinton said, shortly after touring Futuramic, a hangar-like, high-tech factory in Warren, Michigan, that makes parts for the aerospace industry.

“He certainly has at least shifted numerous headlines towards his economic plan, but a lot of attention continues, and likely will continue, to be paid to his temperament”, Dan Mahaffee, an analyst with the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, told Xinhua.

By the end of her speech, Clinton had called for a public health-care option in all 50 states, free public-college tuition for the middle class, relief for student debtors, increasing unionization to help boost wages in the service sector, subsidized training programs to ensure that a four-year college degree isn’t the only pathway to economic security, an expansion of the child tax credit, and paid family leave. In his own speech Trump promised to bring back jobs to Americans, slash taxes, and drastically reconfigure worldwide free trade agreements. But I think it is significant.

“He refuses to do what every other presidential candidate in decades has done and release his tax returns”, Clinton said on Thursday in an economic speech in MI. She criticized Trump, saying he only talked about poverty and crime in Detroit. I thought maybe he was adhering to advice within his party to stay on message.

If Republicans want to support her, that’s fine, but she isn’t going to reward them for jumping off of Trump’s sinking ship. She said that she would stand up to Beijing and any country that tries to take advantage of American workers and companies.

These are ludicrous and risky comments from an increasingly unsafe and ludicrous candidate.

Clinton knows this, too. Instead, she laid out how her economic plan is better than his and how she’s the steady candidate in the race. Bernie Sanders hung over Clinton’s economic vision. She offered a robust rebuttal of the economic plans that Trump outlined earlier this week and painted his proposals, which lacked key details and relied on disproven economic theories, as a gift to America’s wealthiest that would have little benefit to the middle and working classes Trump claims to champion. He later said he meant that gun-rights supporters would mobilize for the election and defeat Clinton, but his comment addressed a scenario in which Clinton had already won the presidency and was appointing liberal judges. “Contrasting her own upbeat message with Trump’s, she said, ‘He is missing so much about what makes MI great”.

On his campaign trail, Trump has had a number of self-destructive stumbles that cast a long shadow over his White House run as they call into question if he is presidential.

And mainstream America is sick and exhausted of controversy. They paid an effective combined tax rate of 45.8 percent in 2014, according to the site. They want fairness and equality.

Other significant sources of income included $3 million in book proceeds for Hillary, and $1.6 million for Bill’s consulting with GEMS Education, an global education company, and Laureate Education, Inc., a for-profit education chain.