Trump to H&R Block—You're Fired!

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If he wins the election, Donald Trump says he wants to put tax preparation company H&R Block out of business. “They don’t deserve to be in business,” Trump told MSNBC. The Donald says tax forms are too complex, though he failed to announce actual plans to improve it. Should the “greatest jobs President” close the giant tax preparation company, more than 80,000 employees stand to lose their jobs, the Daily News reports. Fellow candidate Mike Huckabee proposed a “fair tax” system with a single national retail tax while Ben Carson lobbied for a 10% income tax rate with no tax breaks. [NYDN]

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