Accomplishing that, however, required petitioning to have the secrecy order lifted as the years passed with his invention living in the shadows. Itâs a common refrain in the stump speeches of politicians that America is a nation of ideas, but Congress decided in 1951 that some of those ideas must nonetheless be kept hidden.
ATR Analysis of Donald Trump Tax Reform Plan. GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump released details of his tax reform plan today. It features a system with much lower tax rates than current law, and a broadened tax base for high income earners. âTrumpâs plan is certainly consistent with the Taxpayer Protection Pledge,â said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. âTrump has said he opposes net tax hikes and has made clear that the real problem is spending.
But the real problem for Trump is not another legislative failure, but a victory. To paraphrase the immortal words of Admiral Ackbar, the tax cut bill is a trap. If Trump actually does sign it into law, he might as well be signing his political death warrant. I say this not because tax cuts are a bad idea, or unpopular. Nor because tax relief will be invariably characterized, as it always is by liberals, as a giveaway to the rich. The reason the tax cut bill is a danger to Trump is that itâs the one last thing keeping the bulk of his own party in line behind him.