Taxes – Stand Against Trump

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Trump signs the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

The law permanently reduced the corporate tax rate and temporarily changed many individual provisions. Claims that it was the largest tax cut in U.S. history are contradicted by measures relative to the economy.

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Claim: the 2017 tax law was the largest tax cut in U.S. history

Measured relative to GDP or in inflation-adjusted dollars, several earlier tax reductions were larger.

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