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Who Benefits From Donald Trump¹'s Tax Plan?

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Will Donald Trump follow through on promises he made during the campaign? One place to look for an answer to that question is on taxes. NPR's John Ydstie examines whether Trump's campaign rhetoric³ is consistent with his plan to cut taxes.

JOHN YDSTIE, BYLINE⁴: Donald Trump has proposed a very detailed⁵ tax plan, but his statements on the campaign trail don't always match what his proposal would really do. Here's what the president-elect said about tax cuts at a rally in Scranton, Penn.

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DONALD TRUMP: And we will massively cut taxes for the middle class, the forgotten people, the forgotten men and women of this country who built our country.

YDSTIE: And here is Trump during a town hall meeting on NBC's "Today Show."

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SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: Do you believe in raising taxes on the wealthy?

TRUMP: I do. I do - including myself. I do.

YDSTIE: A pre-election survey by the RAND Corporation, a research group, found at least half of Trump's supporters agreed with Trump on that, according to RAND's Michael Pollard.

MICHAEL POLLARD: Just before the election, after the last debate, 51 percent of them intending to vote for Trump supported increasing taxes on these high-earning individuals.

YDSTIE: But Lily Batchelder says Trump's plan does the opposite. She's a law professor at NYU and a visiting fellow at the Tax Policy Center.

LILY BATCHELDER: If you look at the most wealthy, the top 1 percent would get about half of the benefits of his tax cuts. And a millionaire, for example, would get an average tax cut of $317,000.

YDSTIE: But, Batchelder says, a family earning between $40,000 and $50,000 would get a tax cut of only $560. And, she says, millions of middle-class working families will see their tax bills rise under Trump's plan, especially single-parent families.

BATCHELDER: A single parent who's earning $75,000 and has two school-age children - and they would face a tax increase of over $2,400.

YDSTIE: That's if they had no child care deductions⁶. The increase in taxes comes partly because the Trump plan eliminates the $4,000 exemption⁷ for each person in a household. Steve Calk, a Trump economic adviser⁸, says the loss of the exemption is partially⁹ offset¹⁰ by other changes in the Trump plan. He takes issue with the Tax Policy Center's analysis and argues there will be big tax cuts for middle-income families. Calk says, take a family earning $50,000 a year...

STEPHEN CALK: And their child care costs are, you know, let's say $7,000 or $,8000 a year. They're going to save 35 percent on their net tax bracket.

YDSTIE: Batchelder says that calculation is misleading because it focuses on the tax rate reduction rather than a family's after-tax income, how much money they have left in their pocket after taxes. But Calk argues that personal income tax cuts and the Trump proposal to reduce the corporate¹¹ tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent will help taxpayers¹² by boosting economic growth.

CALK: The single best way to help people that are in the lower-income bracket or unemployed¹³ or underemployed is, number one, to get them employed in real jobs with real benefits.

YDSTIE: Economists¹⁴ disagree on whether the tax plan would be good for the economy. The Tax Policy Center says over the first decade, the government would lose $6.2 trillion dollars in revenue, producing huge budget deficits¹⁵ that could hurt the economy. One other element of the Trump plan that's worth noting - it would eliminate the federal estate tax entirely¹⁶. Only the wealthiest taxpayers, less than 1 percent, now pay that tax. Ending it would lead to an even greater concentration of wealth in America.

John Ydstie, NPR News, Washington.

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

3 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 detailed   

adj.详细的，详尽的，极注意细节的，完全的

参考例句：

• He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
• A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。

6 deductions   

扣除( deduction的名词复数 )； 结论； 扣除的量； 推演

参考例句：

• Many of the older officers trusted agents sightings more than cryptanalysts'deductions. 许多年纪比较大的军官往往相信特务的发现，而不怎么相信密码分析员的推断。
• You know how you rush at things,jump to conclusions without proper deductions. 你知道你处理问题是多么仓促，毫无合适的演绎就仓促下结论。

7 exemption   

n.豁免，免税额，免除

参考例句：

• You may be able to apply for exemption from local taxes.你可能符合资格申请免除地方税。
• These goods are subject to exemption from tax.这些货物可以免税。

8 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

9 partially   

adv.部分地，从某些方面讲

参考例句：

• The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
• The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静，宵禁部分解除。

10 offset   

n.分支，补偿；v.抵消，补偿

参考例句：

• Their wage increases would be offset by higher prices.他们增加的工资会被物价上涨所抵消。
• He put up his prices to offset the increased cost of materials.他提高了售价以补偿材料成本的增加。

11 corporate   

adj.共同的，全体的；公司的，企业的

参考例句：

• This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
• His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。

12 taxpayers   

纳税人，纳税的机构( taxpayer的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
• She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。

13 unemployed   

adj.失业的，没有工作的；未动用的，闲置的

参考例句：

• There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
• The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。

14 economists   

n.经济学家，经济专家( economist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
• Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》

15 deficits   

n.不足额( deficit的名词复数 )；赤字；亏空；亏损

参考例句：

• The Ministry of Finance consistently overestimated its budget deficits. 财政部一贯高估预算赤字。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Many of the world's farmers are also incurring economic deficits. 世界上许多农民还在遭受经济上的亏损。 来自辞典例句

16 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。