{"id":24506,"date":"2017-08-14T11:45:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24506"},"modified":"2017-08-14T16:10:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T20:10:52","slug":"image-of-the-day-u-s-trails-on-corporate-tax-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24506\/image-of-the-day-u-s-trails-on-corporate-tax-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  U.S. Trails on Corporate Tax Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re concerned about headwinds facing American international competitiveness, the first place to isolate and correct the problem is on corporate taxes. \u00a0Courtesy of the Senate Joint Economic Committee, this shows in disturbing relief not only how the U.S. maintains the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/3588-trumps-tax-proposal-an-excellent-framework\" target=\"_blank\">developed world&#8217;s highest rate<\/a>, but also how global competitors continue to move in the right direction and leave us in the dust:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Stagnant U.S. Corporate Tax Rate\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jec.senate.gov\/public\/_cache\/files\/1e5f2f20-1f76-4f4c-9daf-ae88ddfe53e3\/change-in-corporate-tax-rates-homefeaturedlarge.png\" alt=\"Stagnant U.S. Corporate Tax Rate\" width=\"467\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The good news is that comprehensive tax reform efforts are getting underway on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. \u00a0It&#8217;s been three decades since we achieved significant reform under Ronald Reagan, and we mustn&#8217;t blow this golden opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re concerned about headwinds facing American international competitiveness, the first place to isolate and correct the problem is on corporate taxes. \u00a0Courtesy of the Senate Joint Economic Committee, this shows in disturbing relief not only how the U.S. maintains the developed world&#8217;s highest rate, but also how global competitors continue to move in the [&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":[2837,3044],"class_list":["post-24506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-corporate-tax","tag-tax-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24506","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=24506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24509,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24506\/revisions\/24509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}