Trump’s Secret Weapon: American Voters Living Overseas
Donald Trump is courting voters living outside of America by announcing his plan to stop the IRS from double taxing them.
In October, Donald Trump announced a bold strategy to end double taxation on American citizens living abroad. The impact could have a profound effect on those citizens, and could bring in a wave of votes from them. In a tight election that will come down to swing state margins, this could tip the scales in Trump’s favor…
Supporting tax reform could cause American voters overseas to turn out in droves to vote in favor of their pocketbooks. But how did this issue get on Trump’s radar? The radical leftist outlet, Daily Kos, sounded all the alarm bells after Trump’s announcement, which indicates the enormity of the problems it caused for the Democrats. Internal democratic sources also have revealed the extent of the panic.
The Daily Kos complained bitterly after Trump released his video announcement:
Trump’s pitch didn’t arise organically. In fact, it looks a lot like he made up this whole plank of his tax policy platform because basically one random Republican dude asked him to. Solomon Yue, who heads the advocacy group Republicans Overseas, bragged to the Wall Street Journal that he decided to approach Trump after seeing how willing Trump was to promise tax giveaways to everyone else.
That “random republican dude,” longtime RNC member Solomon Yue, has led the effort against taxation of Americans abroad for over a decade. Yue is the outgoing national committeeman for the Oregon Republican Party. Between his duties with the RNC and his position as Vice President of Republicans Overseas, Yue has fought to get FATCA repealed since 2014. Republicans Overseas explains FATCA on its website.
