US Presidency
2018

And instead of going up almost 50 percent, your stock market, in my opinion, would have gone down 50 percent, I really believe that, because they were stifling it. They were getting prepared to stifle even worse than it was. The changes to our business tax alone are expected to raise average household income by $ 4,000. Roughly 3 million workers have already received tax cut bonuses and raises totaling thousands and thousands of dollars per worker, and that's just over the past six weeks alone. Because of our tax cuts, Apple is investing $ 350 billion in the United States. They're bringing $ 240 billion back, $ 240 billion. They're going to pay a tax of $ 38 billion, Mitch, $ 38 billion. But they're going to invest a total of $ 350 billion. And when I first heard the number, I said, You don't mean billion, you mean $ 350 million. Because I've been saying to Tim Cook, Tim, we got to build plants here. You know, for $ 350 million, you could build a beautiful plant.