Tax reform is front and center these days as potential plans for reform are being pushed and are in ASAP mode. As usual there are so many stories and claims to this extremely huge issue. After reviewing dozens of articles I am hard pressed to find any that say that reform as it is currently being debated is going to be good for America.
The one argument the GOP continues to use is the “trickle down” theory which says cut tax on the richest and the fruits of the tax cut will trickle down to the masses. This I find to be unequivocally untrue and in fact it did not work under Reagan or Bush and will fail again if enacted. The rich and big corporations will get richer, the poor will get poorer, and the middle class will continue to shrink. The cut will stimulate little job creation, will not repair our crumbling infrastructure, and will most certainly lead to vital cuts for programs such as medicare and social security as well as ballooning the already massive deficit.
In fact, I have not found one article advocating for these cuts that uses any “theory” besides trickle down. See the articles below among many others that show how amazing these cuts are for the top 1/2 of 1%. In fact the “pass through” tax break will provide massive tax cuts to the super wealthy. Please read for yourself below.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-gop-tax-plan-middle-class-effects-tpc-analysis-2017-11
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/republican-leadership-tax-plans-pass-through-tax-break-would-provide-massive (From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
I hope I am wrong but all the intellectual studies back up my claims. Trickle down will fail and cause far higher inequality in America. Again, I hope i am incorrect.
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