Trump's Economic Plans Don't Add Up

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : They don't -- and can't -- provide a full analysis of the likely economic impacts, in significant part because Trump hasn't provided enough detail to estimate them.
37% : And Trump pushes out new ideas virtually every day, with no underlying analysis of their impacts, making it even harder to keep track of his proposals.
35% : Just this week, Trump talked about capping credit card interest rates at 10 percent, a proposal the Wall Street Journal editorial board compared to previous proposals by Bernie Sanders.
32% : We do know Trump supports extending and deepening regressive tax cuts favoring the wealthy and corporations, levying tariffs that will raise prices for all Americans and possibly start a trade war, and disrupting the labor market by deporting millions of immigrants.
28% : Trump says those tariffs would offset the lost tax revenue, but Wharton laconically notes that "key implementation details...are missing," including the impact on prices and retaliation from trading partners.
27% : But, just as we saw this week on the credit card interest proposal, Trump has no interest in specifying details of what his proposals would look like.
21% : New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who has covered Trump for years, recently said journalism is "not built to deal with somebody who says things that are not true as often as he (Trump) does or speaks as incoherently as he often does."
17% : Attempts to engage on policy specifics are washed away when Trump changes the subject, or distorts and falsifies issues repeatedly.

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