If voters sent one clear message in November’s election, it was that the average American is feeling the painful effects of bad economic policies. Economic policy, therefore, should be a priority for President-elect Donald Trump and incoming lawmakers, whether they are Republicans or Democrats. A clear place to begin is the extension of Trump’s signature 2017 tax law, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Congress should extend, or even lower, the provisions that helped ordinary Americans and, crucially, the 21 percent corporate income tax rate.
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