Dear Donald,

Tens of millions of us voters watched your debate with Hillary Clinton on Monday night. And we’re trying — really trying — to understand some of the points you made about jobs, trade, the economy and taxes.

But you’ve left us confused. Some of the things you’re saying are pretty hard to follow.

So could you just help us out by clarifying a few points?

1. How are we are “losing all our jobs” to other countries when the private sector has generated 12 million jobs in the past five years?

2. Why do you say the Federal Reserve needs to raise interest rates to stop the economy from overheating, when you also say we’re in a terrible slump? Do you think the Fed should raise rates in a slump — a sure recipe for a depression — or do you think the economy is actually doing better than you admit?

3. If all our jobs are going to Mexico, why do we need a wall to stop all the Mexicans moving here for work?

4. Come to think of it, why would they want to come here if we are now a “third-world country” and a “hell hole”?

5. According to the statistics, median personal incomes — when adjusted for inflation — are at or near record highs and are up 5% since 2009. How exactly has President Obama been an economic disaster?

6. If NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, was one of the “worst trade deals” in history, why was it immediately followed by the longest economic expansion in modern U.S. history, the creation of nearly 3 million new jobs a year for five years, and the biggest rise in real private-sector wages since the 1960s?

7. You boast that you’re “smart” to avoid taxes, because the money would have been “squandered.” But two-thirds of all federal spending goes to defense, veterans, Social Security, Medicare and debt interest. How are you defining “squandered”?

8. How do you plan to pay for your massive, $6 trillion tax cut while increasing defense and veteran spending, and without cutting any of the other three?

9. Today, by every reliable statistic, the rich have never had it so good. Yet you say the middle class is in terrible shape. So why do you think the answer is to make the rich even richer by cutting their taxes?

10. Come to think of it, aren’t you arguing that the middle class did better in the 1990s (when, the IRS says, the top 400 taxpayers paid an average rate of 28% a year) than in the past decade (when they’ve paid just 18%)?

11. You plan to cut the inheritance tax paid by super-rich heirs from 45% to 20%. How is that not self-dealing, when by your own estimates that would save your own kids about $2.5 billion?

12. If China is aggressively devaluing its currency to undermine us, why has it risen 24% against the dollar in the past 10 years?

13. The conservative Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget reckons your tax-and-spending plans would raise the national debt to $28 trillion by 2026. If, as you say, we are in a terrible crisis now because our (gross) national debt is nearly $20 trillion, how will we be better off when it’s 40% higher?

14. Dubai, which is part of the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait are tiny dictatorships with lots of oil and few people. Why do you think our infrastructure issues are remotely comparable to theirs?

15. You’ve said it was “smart” and “normal business practice” to use bankruptcy laws to escape your creditors. Former President Harry Truman, famously, refused to do just that when his store folded. Instead he worked for 15 years to pay back every dollar he owed. Did that make him stupid? Equally, millions of middle-class Americans refused to default on their mortgages during the housing crisis, even when they could have done so. Were they stupid too?

If you could just clarify those few points, we’d all be really grateful. Thanks!

Yours,

The Voters

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