Citadel's Griffin Says Trump's 15% Tax Rate Isn't Realistic
- Hedge-fund founder says deficit dictates smaller tax cuts
- Mega-donor speaks at Koch brothers’ political network meeting
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Billionaire hedge fund founder Ken Griffin said President Donald Trump isn’t being realistic when it comes to the tax cuts he has proposed, if the nation wants to remain fiscally responsible and deal with its deficits.
“The bitter truth is we’re not going to see rates as low as those proposed by the administration,” Griffin, the founder of Chicago-based Citadel LLC, said Monday during a panel discussion before donors at a Koch political network summit in Colorado.