Trump Says Millionaire Tax Would Push Wealthy to Leave the US
By and Hadriana Lowenkron
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President Donald Trump said that imposing a higher tax rate on millionaires would spur the country's richest to leave the US, downplaying an idea that is under discussion in some Republican circles as a way to pay for an economic package.
'I think it would be very disruptive because the millionaires would leave the country,' Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. 'Other countries that have done it have lost a lot of people. They lose their wealthy people. That will be bad because the wealthy people pay the tax.'
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