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Donald Trump said he’d consider exempting police officers, firefighters, active duty military and veterans from paying taxes, the Republican nominee’s latest campaign trail idea to deliver tax breaks to key groups of supporters.
“It’s something I would think about,” Trump said in response to a question about excluding first responders and military members from tax bills on an online show Maintaining with Tyrus that aired Friday.
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“You’re like my tax person there, but yeah. I mean something has to be done,” he said. “It’s almost an incentive to where you can get people interested.”
The idea to exempt members of the military and first responders from taxation is the latest in a long list of tax proposals Trump has talked about while campaigning against Kamala Harris. He’s pledged to i) eliminate taxes on tipped wages, ii) taxes on overtime pay and iii) taxes on Social Security benefits.
The no-taxes-on-military-and-first-responders idea could be among the largest new tax cuts he’s discussed to date, exempting more than 20 million people from federal tax payments. According to Bloomberg, there are about 18 million living veterans in the U.S., roughly 1.3 million active duty troops, approximately one million police offers in the U.S. and more than 300,000 professional firefighters, according to several estimates. The U.S. does offer some broad tax exemption to military members, but that is largely limited to people who are serving in active combat zones.
In the Friday interview, Trump also suggested military members should become teachers when asked about measures to secure schools.
“So what about teachers that are in the military and they’re teachers, they leave the military, they become history teachers,” Trump said. “They’re in the room and they get to know the students and they know how to use a gun. You can’t have people that don’t have any idea about what to do with guns.”
Several states, including Iowa and Tennessee, have passed laws allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons on school campuses.
This article originally appeared on Great America News Desk. It is republished with permission.
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Our heroes deserve a little bonus, our recruits deserve a little incentive, considering the treatment received under SloJoe and Obummer. And all the woke nuttiness in leadership.
And government could do with a little less revenue, and a bit tighter budget.