{"id":24018,"date":"2016-09-21T12:45:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T16:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24018"},"modified":"2016-09-21T12:49:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T16:49:41","slug":"image-of-the-day-the-u-s-suffers-developed-worlds-highest-corporate-tax-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24018\/image-of-the-day-the-u-s-suffers-developed-worlds-highest-corporate-tax-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  The U.S. Suffers Developed World&#8217;s Highest Corporate Tax Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate inversions aren&#8217;t the problem, they&#8217;re the symptom. \u00a0The problem, as Mercatus Ceneter&#8217;s Veronique de Rugy <a href=\"http:\/\/mercatus.org\/publication\/more-competitive-tax-rates-could-curb-corporate-inversions?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=research&amp;utm_campaign=SBI\" target=\"_blank\">explains<\/a>, is that &#8220;America&#8217;s corporate income tax rate is the highest of all developed nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"High U.S. Corporate Tax Rate\" src=\"http:\/\/mercatus.org\/sites\/default\/files\/deRugy-Corporate-Tax-Rates-chart-v1-use.png\" alt=\"High U.S. Corporate Tax Rate\" width=\"542\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As de Rugy correctly concludes, &#8220;Addressing the underlying causes of inversions by reforming this tax system would not only stop inversions, it would also trim the burden on corporations, which would in turn help American companies compete better at home and abroad.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate inversions aren&#8217;t the problem, they&#8217;re the symptom. \u00a0The problem, as Mercatus Ceneter&#8217;s Veronique de Rugy explains, is that &#8220;America&#8217;s corporate income tax rate is the highest of all developed nations.&#8221; As de Rugy correctly concludes, &#8220;Addressing the underlying causes of inversions by reforming this tax system would not only stop inversions, it would also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2837,3362],"class_list":["post-24018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-corporate-tax","tag-rate-coalition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24018"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24023,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24018\/revisions\/24023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}