Nov 2, 2017 ... Republicans have recently floated keeping the top tax rate at 39.6 percent. While  this would somewhat reduce the overall plan's tax cut to the wealthy, it would  actually increase the risk of pass-through-related avoidance since the difference  between the two rates would be even larger. President Trump said ...
Mar 13, 2017 ... The CBO published its score of the GOP's bill to repeal and replace Obamacare,  and the results aren't pretty: a $274 billion tax cut for the rich and an increase in  the number of uninsured of 24 million.
There was and is considerable controversy over who benefited from the tax cuts  and whether or not they have been effective in spurring sufficient growth.  Supporters of the proposal and proponents of lower taxes say that the tax cuts  increased the pace of economic recovery and job creation. Further, proponents of  the cuts ...
Sep 29, 2017 ... While some details remain to be filled in, the Trump/GOP framework would  reduce the top corporate tax rate from 35% to 20% and the top rate on “pass  through” business ... President Donald Trump has promoted the Big 6 plan as a  middle class tax cut and has even insisted that the wealthy won't benefit.
Sep 19, 2017 ... White House and GOP leaders are considering major changes to upcoming tax  legislation, including scaling back plans for large-scale tax cuts for the ... the top  tax rate for individuals at 39.6 percent, decreasing the benefits top earners would  see in the tax package by scrapping an earlier proposal that ...
A proposal to reduce the deficit "involved large tax cuts for the top bracket."