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Can GOP Succeed on Tax Cuts?

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After the GOP’s epic Obamacare repeal failure, Americans are wondering if the party can fulfill its other big promise to voters, tax cuts.

Specifically the GOP has focused on cutting America’s corporate tax rate, the highest in the developed world. The high rate harms American businesses, especially small businesses that can’t afford to navigate through tax code loopholes to lower their rates.

Today on Bloomberg, Sahil Kapur details the movement in Washington around a potential tax bill. Kapur writes:

The House GOP tax blueprint backed by Ryan calls for a 20 percent corporate rate, while Trump’s White House tax outline released in April sets a 15 percent rate. Ryan has also called for full and immediate expensing, while the White House has seemed cool to the idea.

“There are so many other questions,” Meadows said. “We need a lot more level of detail before you can opine on whether it’s good or bad.”

Still, some House members said they’re content with leadership’s handling of the proposed tax revamp so far. Representative Devin Nunes of California, a Ryan ally and member of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, said he’s “absolutely” satisfied with the Big Six’s progress. But he voiced some concerns that the death of the border-adjusted tax would make it harder to cut rates “as far as we need to get them down.”

“Right now, there’s just a lot more education that needs to occur,” Nunes said in an interview.

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The Big Six has made headway on the broad principles, and the House and Senate tax-writing committees will now write the legislation, said AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for Ryan.

Republican leaders and staffers on the tax committees are holding regular discussions about the road ahead, hoping to reach agreement on the details of legislation before subjecting lawmakers to difficult votes, a lawmaker and aides said.

William Gale, a tax policy expert at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution, said the lack of policy guidance may be due to the fact that the Big Six — Ryan, Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, White House economic adviser Gary Cohn, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch — appear to have made little progress on the specifics of a tax plan.

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E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998. E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris. Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@youngresearch.com.