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Apr
This Article was previously published at the Orlando Sentinel and was published on our website with permission by the author.
Speaker Paul Ryan and other leading House Republicans are pushing a tax plan that would exempt income from exports from U.S. corporate taxes while denying tax deductions for the costs of imported inputs of goods and services into U.S. production. This proposed “border adjusted tax” could cause cascading harm to U.S. consumers, workers, manufacturers, retailers and, indeed, the entire U.S. economy.
In effect,...