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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 07:02 PM Apr 2018

CBO: 80 Percent of Economic Gains in Trump Tax Plan Will End Up Going to Foreigners

Source: Newsweek Magazine




TRUMP TAX PLAN: 80 PERCENT OF ECONOMIC GAINS WILL END UP GOING TO FOREIGNERS, CBO SAYS

BY NICOLE GOODKIND ON 4/12/18 AT 4:26 PM

President Donald Trump touted the economic growth triggered by his tax cuts in a speech Thursday afternoon, pointing out the projected growth of gross domestic product (GDP) over the next 10 years had increased because of the plan.

But 80 percent of the economic growth generated by the Republican tax cuts will eventually go abroad and benefit foreigners, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The report found significant differences between projected GDP, which measures the level of production in the U.S., and gross national product, which measures the income earned by all Americans. If the economic impact from GDP is higher than GNP, the difference between the two is income generated in the United States but going to foreigners. According to the CBO, on average 34 percent of income from the economic activity driven by the tax cuts is flowing out of the country, and in 2028, when the full effects of the tax cuts are in place, that number will increase to 80 percent.

“We heard statement after statement about how this tax plan would be great for American workers but the analysis is clear,” Senator Chris Van Hollen told Newsweek. “When this thing kicks in, 80 cents of every dollar [gained from the tax plan] will go to foreigners and not American workers. That’s a stunning number.”



Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/republican-tax-plan-donald-trump-cbo-884129

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CBO: 80 Percent of Economic Gains in Trump Tax Plan Will End Up Going to Foreigners (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP
Suckers, they even are placing ads on twitter & elsewhere... Historic NY Apr 2018 #1
I wonder how many of those foreigners will be Russian... (n/t) thesquanderer Apr 2018 #2
Yeah Baby MAGA lunasun Apr 2018 #3
Uncle Vlad must be pleased. sandensea Apr 2018 #4
one wonders if dems will use this information in the upcoming election and before nt msongs Apr 2018 #5
Bein sur! nt Anon-C Apr 2018 #6
REPUBLICAN tax plan. Donnie just posed a bit for his picture to be taken and signed it... JHB Apr 2018 #7
Exactly what I was thinking. BigmanPigman Apr 2018 #9
Wow! I want to see an Ad Stallion Apr 2018 #8
Make Europe, Asia, Russia, and South America great... magicarpet Apr 2018 #10
Don't forget, though DFW Apr 2018 #11
My new bumper sticker. The Wielding Truth Apr 2018 #12
"They took your money. Who has it now?" FiveGoodMen Apr 2018 #17
republicans screwing American taxpayers Achilleaze Apr 2018 #13
not a whiff of this on fox news online. nt wiggs Apr 2018 #14
Trump: "See, I told you I care about foreigners!!" 7962 Apr 2018 #15
Whee. EVERYTHING the Republicans pass is bad for America. Kablooie Apr 2018 #16

Historic NY

(37,460 posts)
1. Suckers, they even are placing ads on twitter & elsewhere...
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 07:12 PM
Apr 2018

to say the full benefits of the plan aren't even implemented. I guess they forgot over time you get less and then boom its gone. Smoke & mirror Republicons.

JHB

(37,166 posts)
7. REPUBLICAN tax plan. Donnie just posed a bit for his picture to be taken and signed it...
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 07:28 PM
Apr 2018

...but it was the Republicans who wrote it and passed it. This was their big chance to get what they wanted, and they took it.

They don't get to disown it by disowning him.

magicarpet

(14,206 posts)
10. Make Europe, Asia, Russia, and South America great...
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 07:56 PM
Apr 2018

.... again - but f*ck America.

Can't these buffoons and idiots get anything right ?

The Wielding Truth

(11,415 posts)
12. My new bumper sticker.
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 08:26 PM
Apr 2018

"80 percent of the economic growth generated by the Republican tax cuts
will eventually go abroad and benefit foreigners,
according to a new report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. "

Kablooie

(18,646 posts)
16. Whee. EVERYTHING the Republicans pass is bad for America.
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 09:39 PM
Apr 2018

Just like increasing the deficit higher than anytime since WWII after years of bragging how they will bring it down. (The way Clinton did.)

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