Trump’s ideas are coming out of all four microphones tonight. Ted Cruz just offered a backwards tax plan that would be harder on the poor and “a colossal giveaway” to the richest of rich.
Ted Cruz: Wonkblog: Ted Cruz’s “flat tax” proposal was a “colossal giveaway to the rich.”
John Kasich: “‘This looks like a pretty big tax cut for the top end and a little bit at the bottom,’ said Robertson Williams, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. ‘There’s not much going to the middle class.’” [Associated Press, 10/15/15]
Marco Rubio: “If he wins his party’s nomination, though, Rubio will have to defend a tax plan that, while said to address the challenges of the middle class, includes a huge break that all-but bypasses the middle and greatly boosts the rich. It was a tax plan that was even too large for Romney himself to run on.” [Washington Post, 4/14/15]
Donald Trump: Tax experts: Donald Trump’s tax plan would raise the top 1 percent’s after-tax earnings more than any other group. [New York Times, 10/14/15]