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Shockingly, Donald Trump’s Tax Plan Could Be Good for Women

Trump wants to eliminate taxes for people earning less than $25,000. Roger Stone—his former top political advisor and longtime business partner and friend who has a tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back—thinks this could be great for women.
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Like the Green Goblin fighting Spiderman on top of a New York skyscraper, Donald Trump announced his tax reform plan outside Trump Tower, unleashing verbal fire on Republican presidential candidates, investment-fund managers, and other rich people.

"[The tax plan] "is going to cost me a fortune," Trump said according to Politico. "We have an amazing code. It will be simple, it will be easy, it will be fair."

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Trump's rhetoric sounded predictable, but shockingly, Trump's tax plan could possibly help working class women. The simplistic code eliminates federal incomes taxes for individuals earning $25,000 or less (and couples earning $50,000 or less) and eliminates most loopholes and deductions, going so far as to limit individuals' number of deductions. 31 million people would stop paying federal income taxes, Trump predicted according to the Wall Street Journal. (Remember: This is a prediction coming from the Trump campaign.) Considering in 2012 the median income of working women was $37,791, Trump's tax plan would allow thousands of women to keep more of their income.

Roger Stone—Trump's former top political advisor and longtime business partner and friend who has a tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back—told Broadly, "The Trump tax reform will help those middle class women who want to climb the ladder in business."

Stone has women on his mind. Next month he releases a new book called The Clintons' War on Women. Trump's plan also falls in line with the beliefs of Independent Women's Forum (IWF). The IWF is a self-proclaimed "feminist" non-profit organization that supports conservative causes and believes "all issues are women's issues." Some of their key issues include urging mothers to ignore government warnings about the safety of medication and foods. Like an XoJane-Breitbart hybrid that believes negative stories about artificial sweeteners are outrageous government conspiracies, they publish articles like "Alarmism About Diet Drinks Harms Dieters" and "Regulations Suck the Sweet Out of Strawberries." Earlier this year, they sent a letter to congress to complain that "small businesses and individuals see some of the highest rates and most complicated tax laws."

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"As the backbone of America, small businesses should be afforded every opportunity for a fair and simple tax code, saving them significant accountant and legal fees to ensure compliance with a growing and complex code," they wrote. " Over the decades individuals have faced an increasingly complex, labyrinthine tax code that few understand. Such complication by its very nature is unfair, often more heavily burdening those least able to shoulder the extra load."

Trump's plan lining up with some women's beliefs seems shocking. The Donald's 2015 accomplishments include becoming anti-abortion after years of identifying as pro-choice, mocking Megyn Kelly for questioning his views on women, and saying failed CEO and noted fetus lover Carly Fiorina's face was unelectable. (Trump has since said he was referring to Fiorina's personality, not her physical appearance.) But Trump has built his political popularity on a populist message geared towards the working class. Lowering and eliminating taxes riles up his base.

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Trump, of course, plans to decrease taxes for everyone. He says he would eliminate three of the seven tax brackets, and Americans would be taxed at zero, 10, 20, and 25 percent. Yes, the richest Americans would go from paying 39.6 percent in taxes to 25 percent, but Trump assured reporters he could pay for the tax cuts through the aforementioned elimination of most loopholes and deductions, along with a plan even more populist (and controversial with Wall Street): getting rid of the carried interest tax break, "which allows many investment-fund managers to pay lower taxes on much of their compensation," according to the Wall Street Journal.

"Unless you are Warren Buffett or George Soros or one of the other swine hedge-fund managers paying a grand total of 12 percent of your income in taxes, Trump's plan is good for you," Trump supporter Ann Coulter told Broadly.

Trump believes the plan would increase the government's revenue within three year and also increase jobs. An influx of cash and jobs, he believes, would come through a one-time 10 percent tax on overseas profits, which would motivate American businesses to return stateside. These are, of course, Trump's predictions. He would have to pass the tax reform through an incredibly lazy, rebellious conservative House of Representatives. Even if the tax reform became a law, who knows if they would work. Trump's businesses have failed to match his predictions in the past (see: Trump's four businesses which have declared bankruptcy). Either way, lowering taxes for working class people would help women, but Trump's policies still fail to address how the supposedly regulation-averse republicans want to regulate women's bodies and their rights to abortions, while women deal with shitty maternity leave, a college rape epidemic, and a slew of other issues ruining women's lives. In a world where crazed terrorists try to blow up abortion clinics, women need way more than a tax break.