OPINION: What Would a Second Trump Term Mean for Our Taxes?
Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center on October 17, 2024. Originally published at The Keystone. Donald Trump doesn’t like to talk much about the public policies he would propose if he becomes president again. To the despair of his own political advisors, he would rather make juvenile, personal attacks against Kamala Harris. But maybe Trump knows what he is doing. For if you look at the policy proposals he and his closest advisors have actually supported, you’ll see that they would be disastrous for working people. That’s especially true when it comes to taxes. Here’s what we can surmise from what he has said and done about his likely tax policies and how they would affect Pennsylvanians. First, he would seek to reauthorize the 2017 Trump tax cut law, which expires in 2025. The tax cut was so tilted in favor of the wealthy, rather than workers, that it had… Continue reading