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This week in Donald Trump’s conflicts of interest: Don’t trust tax reform

(Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Shutterstock/Salon) President Donald Trump has had a couple of conflict-related issues this week, but perhaps the most important one could literally impact every single American. Trump’s proposed tax reform plan will help the super-rich like himself Back in November, future Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC, “Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.” It was an important promise, since it reassured Americans that the super-rich appointees who Trump had selected to staff his administration weren’t going to push for policies that primarily helped themselves. But this week, Mnuchin admitted, “So when you’re cutting taxes across the board, it’s very hard not to give tax cuts to the wealthy with tax cuts to the middle class.

 

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