‘Utterly Irresponsible’: Conservative Columnist Rips Trump For Promising Everyone They ‘Won’t Have to Pay Taxes Any More’
National Review‘s Charles C.W. Cooke blasted Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump over his latest promise regarding tax policy on Thursday.
Ahead of his remarks in Detroit, it was widely reported that Trump intended to announce his intention to make interest on car loans tax-deductible, a proposal that Cooke bristled at.
“As I pointed out last month, Trump is literally going to every single place he needs to win and saying ‘. . . and YOU and YOUR customers won’t have to pay taxes any more!'” wrote Cooke. “It’s utterly irresponsible.”
As I pointed out last month, Trump is literally going to every single place he needs to win and saying “. . . and YOU and YOUR customers won’t have to pay taxes any more!” It’s utterly irresponsible. https://t.co/MI9ozxWwTg https://t.co/JsO0yjrl1A
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) October 10, 2024
He further made that case in a column for National Review, observing that Trump has promised that ” if he were to be chosen as president once again, Americans would not only end up paying ‘no tax on tips,’ ‘no tax on overtime,’ and ‘no tax on Social Security benefits,’ but that he would help repeal one of the biggest achievements of his first term, the cap on the state-and-local-tax (SALT) deduction within the income-tax code.”
He continued:
Why? Because Trump thinks that these declarations will be popular among the groups he needs to win — and hasn’t considered them beyond that. Nevada has a large number of tip-reliant service workers; Trump wants to win Nevada; therefore . . . Social Security recipients vote in higher numbers than any other group; Trump wants them to vote for him rather than for his opponent; therefore . . . Trump is speaking in New York tonight; New Yorkers want their SALT-subsidy back; therefore . . . Regrettably, there is nothing more to any of it than that. It’s Oprah Winfreyism, writ large.
Cooke went on to predict that if Trump does win the 2024 election, “the scattershot approach to policy that he has taken throughout this capricious campaign” will impair him.
