Elizabeth Warren Takes a Sledgehammer to Donald Trump’s Economic Plan
Photo (Cropped) by Edward Kimmel on Flickr/Creative Commons
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump outlined his long-awaited economic plan Monday, in a speech best remembered for the deeply Freudian vow to pour trillions into “titties like Detroit.”
“I want to jump-start America and it can be done and it won’t even be that hard,” Trump said.
The plan calls for an end to the estate tax, as well as making child care costs tax-deductible. Trump’s opponent, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, dismissed the proposal as “just a repackaging of trickle-down economics.”
To hammer this point home, Sen. Elizabeth Warren pulled the ripcord and fired up the ol’ Twitter machine yet again, comparing Trump’s call for more deregulation and corporate tax cuts to the same lack of oversight that crashed the economy in 2008.
.@realDonaldTrump's econ plan was written by rich corporate insider advisors to make the economy even greater for rich corporate insiders.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
“Cut regulations massively,” @realDonaldTrump? No rules & no accountability means people get ripped off & markets blow up. Remember 2008?
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
A “moratorium” on agency regulations means stopping new rules on shady payday lenders & too-big-to-fail banks, @realDonaldTrump.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
W/o rules, @realDonaldTrump, too many huge banks juiced profits by cheating ppl on mortgages, credit cards, etc, then crashed our economy.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
Trump gets advice from Bear Stearns' fmr chief economist. So @realDonaldTrump: did BS need FEWER regs when they helped crash our economy?
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
Cheating customers & gaming the system might be your business, @realDonaldTrump, but it’s not the way America is going to do business.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
And taxes? @realDonaldTrump wants billionaires & giant corps to pay EVEN LESS – so there’s less money for ed, infrastructure & research.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
Even @realDonaldTrump's childcare plan gives billionaires w/ a nanny a tax break while millions of low-income households get nothing.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
.@realDonaldTrump's economics plan is all about helping rich guys like Donald Trump get richer – & leaving everyone else behind.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
The American people aren’t dumb, @realDonaldTrump. We don’t trust you with our nuclear codes AND we don’t trust you with our economy.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
Trump has yet to tweet a response as of Tuesday morning, but it’s likely only a matter of time before he summons Howie Carr from whatever Market Basket he’s hawking T-shirts at to start up the war-whoops again.
