STEVE MOORE: The good, the bad and the ugly in the Senate's 'big beautiful' tax bill

Bravo to Idaho Republican Sen. Mike Crapo, who conscionable released the Senate's draught of the tax bill. In galore ways, this mentation is simply a polished-up betterment from the House bill.  Most importantly, it makes virtually ALL the 2017 Trump taxation cuts permanent. It besides weeds retired immoderate of the troubling aspects of the House bill.

Its biggest flaw is the shortage of meaningful spending cuts retired of our bloated $7 trillion enterprise, but I’m assured by Senate leadership that much cuts are to travel this autumn erstwhile the fund is finalized.

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Here is my speedy appraisal of the champion and worst features of the taxation components of this latest mentation of the measure that volition caput to the Senate level successful arsenic small arsenic a week oregon so:

The Good

• Restores the $10,000 SALT headdress - arsenic opposed to the preposterous $40,000 headdress successful the House bill.
• Makes astir each 2017 Trump taxation cuts permanent, including superior expensing provisions, schoolhouse prime taxation credits, and accidental zones.
• Limits the remittances taxation to currency transactions alternatively than the House attack that dinged slope transactions – which would inhibit overseas concern successful the U.S.
• Caps nary taxation connected tips astatine $25,000 and connected taxation connected overtime astatine $12,500 per year
• Adopts "current policy" baseline to little the expected "cost" of the bill.

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The Bad and the Ugly

• No chopped successful firm taxation complaint (Trump wanted 15%).
• Cuts the taxation connected net from university endowments to lone 8% versus 21% successful the House bill
• No backstage instauration excise taxation connected their concern earnings.
• Excludes the Trump thought of a 15% concern taxation connected made-in-the-USA products.
• Eliminates the House-passed enlargement of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) which helps trim aesculapian costs.
• Extends galore Green New Deal vigor giveaways past the extremity of Trump's term.
• Retains the unfair treble taxation connected migrant remittances.

The decorativeness enactment is present successful site. The 2 chambers aren't excessively acold isolated and truthful reconciling the differences rapidly and getting the gemstone of the Trump docket connected the president's table for signature precise soon should beryllium easy achievable.  

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This volition beryllium an tremendous triumph for American families, workers and businesses and volition stave disconnected a $4 trillion taxation hike connected January 1 – thing the congressional Democrats seem good with.

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Failure is not an enactment unless immoderate Republicans similar a termination ngo to blow up the economy and get wiped retired successful adjacent year's midterm elections.  

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