Hillary Clinton Quotes
And I will repeat today what I have said throughout this campaign. I will not raise taxes on the middle class. I will give you tax relief to help ease these burdens.
Clinton, Hillary. "Remarks on the Economy in Warren, Michigan." The American Presidency Project, 11 Aug. 2016.
This early cry for a graduated income tax interestingly coupled it with a reduction of corporate taxes. The former became a major plank of the Democratic Party, and the latter of the Republicans. In America, third minor parties, even though they do not win elections sometimes do influence the political scene by putting ideas on the national agenda.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president of the United States by a major political party when she won the Democratic Party nomination in 2016. She was the first woman to win the popular vote in an American presidential election; however, she failed to win the Electoral College.