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Expectations for Trump’s 2017? Rich get richer

What happens when the Donald Trump presidential “Make America Great Again” plan is in place?

We’re looking at a $2 trillion tax cut for millionaires and billionaires while 8.7 million low-income families will have have tax increases as well as decreases in Social Security. . The Affordable Care Act will be repealed for over 20 million people who have signed up.

Premiums will increase, coverage for those with pre-existing conditions will be cut along with health care for low- and middle-income families.

We’re looking at the creation of a “medical industrial complex” that will “Make American Millionaires and Billionaires Great Again.”

Once that happens, our only hope is that “trickle-down economics” works this time.

Philip Traynor, Fresno

This story was originally published January 3, 2017 at 11:39 AM with the headline "Expectations for Trump’s 2017? Rich get richer."

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