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Chuck Todd Confronts GOP Senator: Weren’t Trump Tax Cuts an ‘Economic Failure’?
“At one point former President Trump said this thing is going to pay off the debt like it’s water. As you know, the debt is way up,” Todd noted at one point.
Meet the Press anchor Chuck Todd pressed Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) on former President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, noting that the tax plan could be seen as an “economic failure” since the promises of massive economic growth never came true.
With President Joe Biden proposing increases in corporate tax rates to help pay for his $2.3 trillion infrastructure spending bill, Republicans have pushed back, complaining that the tax hikes on the wealthy will inevitably lead to job losses and impact small businesses. Wicker attempted to make that argument during his Sunday appearance on Meet the Press.
“What the president proposed this week is not an infrastructure bill,” the senator groused. “It’s a huge tax increase, for one thing. It’s a tax increase on small businesses, on job creators in the United States of America.”
He added: “How can the president expect to have bipartisanship when the proposal is a repeal of one of our signature issues in 2017 where we cut the tax rate and made the United States finally more competitive when it comes to the way we treat job creators? He reverses all that.”
Todd, however, pushed back on Wicker’s claims, pointing out that Republicans and Trump boasted at the time that the tax cuts would pay for themselves and would grow the economy at a much faster rate, things that have yet to come true.
“This tax cut that you guys put through in 2017, there were various promises made, that they would pay for themselves,” Todd declared. “Hasn’t come close to that. It was going to produce 4, 5, 6 percent growth. We didn’t even get 3 percent.”
“At one point former President Trump said this thing is going to pay off the debt like it’s water. As you know, the debt is way up,” he continued. “You look at this tax cut proposal, when most of the benefits seem to go to stockholders, with corporations didn’t do what you thought they were going to do which is take the savings and invest. They instead did stock buybacks. Wasn’t this tax cut an economic failure?”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/chuck-todd-confronts-gop-sen-roger-wicker-asks-if-trump-tax-cuts-were-economic-failure?via=newsletter&source=Weekend
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