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Donald Trump: “Reducing our GDP by 2%, lowering wages by 1.2 and killing…”

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Donald Trump campaigning in Juneau, Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 43:13

We're going to be raising them by $4.1 trillion in taxes, hiking the family's taxes by two thousand six hundred dollars to three thousand two hundred dollars a year, Reducing our GDP by 2%, lowering wages by 1.2 and killing 786,000 full time jobs. And I don't know if you know, last month we lost, we lost 26,000 manufacturing jobs in the US, 26,000. Because people want to get the hell out of here. (43:13–43:24)

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