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Another day, another profoundly unserious economic proposal from Donald Trump. Thursday, Trump campaigned in Detroit, Michigan, where when he wasn’t busy insulting the city itself, he was tossing out a previously unannounced plan to make the interest on car loans tax-deductible.
This, of course, is nothing but pandering on Trump’s part, his lizard brain scrambling for something that would appeal to auto workers in a key swing state.
It’s telling that Trump didn’t propose anything that would directly change those workers’ lives for the better, such as improved safety protections or supporting strong unions as a bulwark against management. Instead, Trump, the man of the people, knows what auto workers crave: a tax break that would benefit rich people who buy expensive vehicles and would somehow magically trickle down to the workers who make those vehicles.
