Trump: Taxes ‘Really Should Go up’ for the Wealthy, for ‘Somebody Like Me’

‘I think nobody knows more about taxes than I do and income than I do’

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TODD: "Wealthy need to pay more taxes. What do you define as wealthy, by the way?"
TRUMP: "Let me explain. Somebody like me. Let me explain something. I’m putting in a plan, chuck. I have to negotiate now with senators and congressmen. The fact I put in a plan, it really is a floor. That’s what it is. Whether we like it or not. I put in my plan. It’s simple to see. It’s a simplification. We lower the number of brackets. We lower the taxes on the middle class, on business, and we lower the taxes on everybody. Very substantially. But I have no illusions. I don’t think that’s going to be the final plan because they’re going to come to me, including the Democrats and everybody else. They’re going to come and want to negotiate. That’s a floor, that’s where we’re starting. When it comes time to negotiate, I feel less concerned with the rich than I do with the middle class."

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