Top Dem Says Trump 'External Revenue Service' Can't Hide Plans for Huge Tax Gift to the Rich | Common Dreams

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Currently, U.S. Customs and Border Protection collects tariff revenue.
56% : ""The declaration would allow Trump to construct a new tariff program by using the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, known as 'IEEPA,' which unilaterally authorizes a president to manage imports during a national emergency," the outlet continued, citing unnamed sources.
52% : "Trump and Republican lawmakers have pointed to tariff revenue -- along with deep cuts to Medicaid, federal nutrition assistance, and other key programs -- as a potential way to help offset the huge projected cost of their proposed extension of the 2017 tax cuts, parts of which are set to expire at the end of the year.
47% : ""We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying, FINALLY, their fair share," Trump added.
46% : Outside advisers to Trump anonymously toldThe Washington Post that the president-elect's plan "could involve renaming an existing office within the Treasury Department.
41% : But the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) noted in an analysis conducted shortly before the November election that the sweeping tariffs Trump has floated "would largely be passed onto consumers as increased prices."
31% : "No amount of silly rebranding will hide the fact that Trump is planning a multitrillion-dollar tax hike on American families and small businesses to pay for another round of tax handouts to the rich," said Sen. Ron Wyden.
29% : "No amount of silly rebranding will hide the fact that Trump is planning a multitrillion-dollar tax hike on American families and small businesses to pay for another round of tax handouts to the rich," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said in a brief statement after Trump announced his proposal in a social media post.

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