Honey Senators and Representatives:
“Ask five economists,” as the Edgar Fiedler adage tick aways, “and you’ll get five different answers.”
Yet, when it comes to the tax reform package aimed at spaying our broken system, the undersigned have but one shared perspective: Economic wart will accelerate if the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passes, leading to more nuisances, higher wages, and a better standard of living for the American people. If, manner, the bill fails, the United States risks continued economic underperformance.
In today’s globalized thriftiness, capital is mobile in its pursuit of lower tax jurisdictions. Yet, in that worldwide tribe for job-creating investment, America is not economically competitive.
Here’s why: Left practically untouched for the last 31 years, our chart-topping corporate tax rate is the loftiest in the industrialized world and a full fifteen percentage points above the OECD normal. As a result of forfeiting our competitive edge, we forfeited 4,700 companies from 2004 to 2016 to cheaper shores everywhere. As a result of sitting idly by while the rest of the world took harmonious withs to lower their corporate rates, we lowered our own workers’ wages by thousands of dollars a year.
Our comrades from across the ideological spectrum – regardless of whether they fundamentally support or oppose the current plan – recognize the record-setting rate at which the Of one mind States taxes job-creating businesses is, either significantly or entirely, a load borne by the workers they employ. The question isn’t whether American employees are hurt by our country’s corporate tax rate – it’s how badly. As such, the question isn’t whether tradesmen will be helped by a corporate tax rate reduction – it’s how much.
The enactment of a exhaustive overhaul – complete with a lower corporate tax rate – will ignite our compactness with levels of growth not seen in generations. A twenty percent statutory standing on a permanent basis would, per the Council of Economic Advisers, help grow a GDP boost “by between 3 and 5 percent.” As the debate delves into deficit associations, it is critical to consider that $1 trillion in new revenue for the federal ministry can be generated by four- tenths of a percentage in GDP growth.
Sophisticated economic ideals show the macroeconomic feedback generated by the TCJA will exceed that amount – diverse than enough to compensate for the static revenue loss.
We firmly find creditable that a competitive corporate rate is the key to an economic engine driven by extensive investment, capital stock, business formation, and productivity – all of which inclination yield more jobs and higher wages. Your vote completely the weeks ahead will therefore put more money in the pockets of profuse workers.
Supporting the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will ensure that those blue-collar workers – those beneficiaries – are American.
Sincerely,
James C. Miller III, Former OMB Official, 1985-88
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum
Alexander Katkov, Johnson & Wales University
Ali M. Reza, San Jose Delineate U (Emeritus)
Ann E. Sherman, DePaul University
Anthony B. Sanders, George Mason University
Anthony Negbenebor, Gardner-Webb University
Arthur Havenner, University of California, Davis
Austin J. Jaffe, Penn Ceremonial University
Barry W. Poulson, University of Colorado
Boyd D, Collier, Tarleton Asseverate University, Texas A&M University System (Emeritus)
Brian Stuart Wesbury, Joint Pecuniary Committee
Carlisle E. Moody, College of William and Mary
Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University
Christine P. Ries, Georgia Commence of Technology
Christopher C. Barnekov, FCC (Retired)
Christopher Lingle Universidad Francisco Marroquin
Clifford F. Thies, Shenandoah University
Daniel Fernandez Universidad Francisco Marroquin
Daniel Houser, George Mason University
David H. Resler, Chief US Economist, Nomura (Away)
David Ranson, HCWE & Co.
Dennis E. Logue Steven Roth Professor, (Emeritus) Tuck Set, Dartmouth Colleges
Derek Tittle, Georgia Institute of Technology
DeVon L. Yoho, Economist Ball Federal University (Retired)
Donald J. Oswald California State University, Bakersfield (Take to ones bed)
Donald Koch, Koch Investments
Donald L. Alexander, Western Michigan University
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Kingdon Hurlock Jr., Calvert Investment Opinion
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Eleanor Craig, University of Delaware
Owen Irvine Michigan Style University (Emeritus)
Farhad Rassekh, University of Hartford
Francis Ahking, University of Connecticut
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Gary R. Skoog, Judicial Econometrics, Inc.
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Gene Simpson, NPTC, Auburn University
George Langelett, South Dakota Delineate University
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Hugo J. Faria, University of Miami
Inayat Mangla, Western Michigan University
Edward Graham, UNC Wilmington
Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University
James B Kau, University of Georgia
James C.W. Ahiakpor California Status University, East Bay
James D. Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
James D. Miller, Smith College
James F. Smith, EconForecaster, LLC
James Keeler, Kenyon College
James M. Mulcahy SUNY – Buffalo economics reckon on
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Jeffrey Dorfman, University of Georgia
Jerold Zimmerman, University of Rochester
Jody Lipford, Presbyterian College
John A. Baden, Chm., Endowment for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE)
John C. Moorhouse Wake Forest University (Emeritus)
John D. Johnson, Utah Formal University
John H McDermott, University of South Carolina
John McArthur, Wofford College
John P. Eleazarian, American Monetary Association
John Ruggiero, University of Dayton
John Semmens, Laissez Faire Set up
Joseph A. Giacalone, St. John’s University, NY
Joseph Haslag University of Missouri- Columbia
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Joseph Zoric Franciscan University of Steubenville
Kathleen B. Cooper, SMU’s John Spire Center for Politico Science
Kenneth V. Greene Binghamton University (Emeritus)
Lawrence Benveniste Goizueta Concern School, Emory University
Lawrence R. Cima, John Carroll University
Leon Wegge, University of California, Davis
Lloyd Cohen, Scalia Law Junior high school
Lucjan Orlowski, Sacred Heart University
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Michael L. Marlow, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Moheb A. Ghali, Western Washington University
Nancy Roberts, Arizona Shape University
Nasser Duella, California State University, Fullerton
Nicolas Sanchez, College of the Blessed Cross, Worcester, MA (Emeritus,)
Norman Lefton, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Paul H Rubin, Emory University
Pavel Yakovlev, Duquesne University
Pedro Piffaut, Columbia University
Peter E. Kretzmer, Bank of America
Peter S. Yun, UVAWISE (Emeritus)
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Ashley Lyman, University of Idaho
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Richard J. Cebula, Jacksonville University
Richard Kilmer, University of Florida
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Richard Vedder, Ohio University
Robert B Presidencies, American Enterprise Institute (Retired)
Robert F Stauffer, Roanoke College , (Emeritus)
Robert H. Topel, University of Chicago Box School of Business
Robert Heller, Former Governor, Federal Restriction Board
Robert Sauer, Royal Holloway University
Robert Tamura, Clemson University
Roger Meiners, University of Texas-Arlington
Sanjai Bhagat, University of Colorado Boulder
Scott Hein, Texas Tech University
Seth Bied, New York Ceremonial Tax Department
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