GOP tax bill is good for middle-class Americans
By F.H. Buckley
USA Today
December 10, 2017
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The bill is good news for most middle-class Americans. More important, it’s a jobs bill, because it will give firms an incentive to invest in the United States. At present, America’s federal corporate tax rate of 35% is one of the highest in the world, and if you add in state taxes it’s 39.1 % on average, the highest rate in the Group of 20 major and emerging economic powers, and 10% above its average rate.
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There’s a worldwide competition for investment dollars, and all other things being equal they’re going to flow to low-tax countries.
What’s worse, the high U.S. rate has given American multinational firms an incentive to leave foreign earnings offshore.
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The bill also offers a tax repatriation holiday, under which American firms with money parked abroad could bring it back and pay a tax rate of just 10%.
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CNBC reports that American firms have left $2.6 trillion in foreign subsidiaries. That amounts to nearly 14% of U.S. GDP. If firms had an incentive to reinvest the money here, think what this would mean for American jobs.
It’s all about jobs for Americans. You have a problem with that?
