With inflation at its highest rate since 1982, if Democrats really care about our Nation’s “working” class, they will support making the Trump tax cuts permanent. Before the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), anemic economic growth had become the new normal. Workers were permanently on the sidelines, and American manufacturing was a thing of the past. The message from the Obama White House was, in short: Get used to it. President Obama even said a “magic wand” didn’t exist to fix the economy.
But fortunately for workers across our country, President Trump’s tax cuts were exactly the magic wand our Nation’s economy — and their pocketbooks — needed. To help make a case for the dire need for tax reform, many of us in the Trump Administration traveled across the country to explain the economic benefits American families could expect from the tax cuts. Well, now, over 4 years in, and even with a worldwide pandemic, I’m pleased to report the Trump tax cuts fundamentally changed our economy for the better. And that’s why Congress should enact legislation to make them permanent — 57 percent of Americans support doing so.
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