{"id":24088,"date":"2016-10-26T11:59:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T15:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24088"},"modified":"2016-10-26T12:41:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T16:41:35","slug":"begrudgingly-celebrating-the-30th-anniversary-of-the-tax-reform-act-of-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24088\/begrudgingly-celebrating-the-30th-anniversary-of-the-tax-reform-act-of-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Begrudgingly Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Tax Reform Act of 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Entrepreneurs and small businesses are being crushed by an outdated, confusing and counter-productive tax code. And businesses aren\u2019t the only ones being squeezed.\u00a0 The United States has the highest business tax rate in the world, which is costing American families $3,000 per year in spending power.<\/div>\n<p><div>Yet despite these challenges, last week marked a staggering 30 years since Congress last passed major tax reform.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>Working together, the next president and Congress can deliver for America&#8217;s taxpayers by simplifying the tax code and setting a fair business rate of no higher than 25 percent within the first 100 days.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>It\u2019s time for Congress to get to work!<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"30 Year Tax Code\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/images\/30th-Anniversary-Tax-Reform-Baker-10-2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"337\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneurs and small businesses are being crushed by an outdated, confusing and counter-productive tax code. And businesses aren\u2019t the only ones being squeezed.\u00a0 The United States has the highest business tax rate in the world, which is costing American families $3,000 per year in spending power. Yet despite these challenges, last week marked a staggering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4925,3044,71],"class_list":["post-24088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-business-tax-rate","tag-tax-reform","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24088"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24099,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088\/revisions\/24099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}