Donald Trump said he\u2019d consider exempting police officers, firefighters, active duty military and veterans from paying taxes,\u00a0the Republican nominee\u2019s latest campaign trail idea to deliver tax breaks to key groups of supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s something I would think about,\u201d Trump said in response to a question about excluding first responders and military members from tax bills on an online show Maintaining with Tyrus <\/em><\/a>that aired Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read more from Zero Hedge<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou\u2019re like my tax person there, but yeah. I mean something has to be done,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s almost an incentive to where you can get people interested.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The idea to exempt members of the military and first responders from taxation is the latest in a long list of tax proposals Trump has talked about while campaigning against Kamala Harris. He\u2019s pledged to i) eliminate taxes on tipped wages, ii) taxes on overtime pay and iii) taxes on Social Security benefits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The no-taxes-on-military-and-first-responders idea could be among the largest new tax cuts he\u2019s discussed to date,\u00a0exempting more than 20 million people from federal tax payments.\u00a0According to\u00a0Bloomberg<\/a>, there are about 18 million living veterans in the US, roughly 1.3 million active duty troops, approximately 1 million police offers in the US and more than 300,000 professional firefighters, according to several estimates. The US does offer some broad tax exemption to military members, but that is largely limited to people who are serving in active combat zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the Friday interview, Trump also suggested military members should become teachers when asked about measures to secure schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo what about teachers that are in the military and they\u2019re teachers, they leave the military, they become history teachers,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey\u2019re in the room and they get to know the students and they know how to use a gun. You can\u2019t have people that don\u2019t have any idea about what to do with guns.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Other states including Iowa and Tennessee, have passed laws allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons on school campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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