Trump's New Tax Plan Met With Mixed Reviews

This morning Donald Trump unveiled his long awaited tax plan which apparently will eliminate federal taxes for millions. I first stumbled upon the story on the Fox News official website which briefly stated the basis of Trump's plan, along with many quotes from different skeptics. Fox News states that according to Trump, "[The plan] would eliminate federal income taxes on individuals earning less than $25,000, and married couples earning less than $50,000." Fox also briefly stated that Trump would be able to do this by the combination of eliminating deductions and loopholes. However, after their short description of the plan, much of the article was quotes from different economists and budget officers who find Trump's plan unappealing. For example, "His tax plan begs the question: Does this mean you were completely wrong about all your liberal policies on taxes, trade, and health care, bailouts, and eminent domain?" Fox also went as far as including Holtz-Eakin's quip about Trump saying, "He claims his hair is real, too." I found this article to be immensely bias toward Trump's tax plan so I decided to take a look at the other news outlets and see their view on the same topic.

CNN had also written an article on Trump this morning titled, "Donald Trump Unveils Plan To Slash Taxes For The Poor -- And The Wealthy." CNN does expand a bit more on the plan and how it works. However, much like the title of the article, their main focus is expressing how the new taxes would effect the wealthy. Right from the start CNN states that this plan would cut taxes from the wealthy to 15% as opposed to their regular 40%. As a result, CNN accuses Trump for charges of hypocrisy because he, "surged to the top of the polls by touting a populist tone, lamenting that wealthy people like himself should pay more." The article also declared Trumps persistence to avoid questions on the subject leaving CNN and others unsatisfied. Much like Fox New's article the information presented was not necessarily untrue, but it did seem a bit one sided. Although both news outlets did not seem fond of Trump's new tax plan, they exhibited different reasons why and seemed to harp on their reason for much of the article.

So I decided to give it one more shot over on CBS's page. I found that CBS took a different approach in covering this story. In contrast to the other news stations that wrote an article, CBS posted a quick minute and 30 second clip of Trump's speech this morning. From a reviewing stand point I believe their intention was for the audience to make their own opinion on the new tax plan. I like this method, although I do wish they would have shown the viewers more of the speech. Seeing more or all of the speech eliminates the chances for the audience to be misinformed and ultimately create a bias opinion for themselves.

This experiment furthered my theory that news outlets are prejudice in their display of information. Whilst I understand that humans are entitled to their opinions, I sometimes find it unjust that news stations are given huge outlets to implant their ideas to people by presenting them with only a piece of the true information. Hopefully this blog has helped you, the reader, dive into Trump's new tax plan and see it from many angles. I challenge you to come up with your own opinion on the topic and always look to more sources for topics in the future.

Tyler Betts

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