{"id":1368,"date":"2017-07-18T16:23:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T21:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2017-08-11T13:43:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T18:43:04","slug":"on-corporate-tax-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1368","title":{"rendered":"On Corporate Tax Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Spicer, at his non-televised press briefing yesterday, seems to ignore the same basic fundamental of corporate tax calculations: &#8220;I\u2019ve talked to several CEOs and business leaders in the past couple of weeks about tax reform, and it\u2019s amazing how many of them tell you that they pay the 35 percent rate. And you say to them, what will you do if that rate drops? And the number-one thing they talk about is they\u2019re going to invest and build more in their company. And I think that\u2019s what we need to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This tells me exactly what the current administration wants from corporate tax reform &#8212; not something that would help small businesses. They want to help enormous corporations that actually benefit from lowering the top level US corporate tax rate. Companies sheltering money overseas or investing overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Spicer, at his non-televised press briefing yesterday, seems to ignore the same basic fundamental of corporate tax calculations: &#8220;I\u2019ve talked to several CEOs and business leaders in the past couple of weeks about tax reform, and it\u2019s amazing how many of them tell you that they pay the 35 percent rate. And you say &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[255,254,50],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-corporate-tax-rate","tag-tax","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}