>>These are the actual things we should be talking about.
I (hesitantly) disagree. That specific tax policy change is a tree in a vast forest. It happens to be relevant here, but without it... It's not like Amazon, Google, apple, etc would have paid anywhere near the simple tax rate had that legislation not been enacted. Amazon had a different loophole/strategy in 2016 and will have another one for whenever the 2017 one expires whatnot.
Ultimately, corporate income tax has been broken for over 50 years, and it's been brought ken internationally, not just in the US.
...broken in the sense that the "rate" can be 35%, 23% or whatever and the total tax raised in an economy some number unrelated to that.
Reporting the way you suggest implies that in 2016 things were different, or that canceling that policy will yield a meaningfully different result. That's not the case.
Then it should be discussed. Along with the policies already mentioned in the article and it's disingenuous not to do so. How can we expect to make informed decisions if we selectively choose what information to expose or hide for discussion?
I (hesitantly) disagree. That specific tax policy change is a tree in a vast forest. It happens to be relevant here, but without it... It's not like Amazon, Google, apple, etc would have paid anywhere near the simple tax rate had that legislation not been enacted. Amazon had a different loophole/strategy in 2016 and will have another one for whenever the 2017 one expires whatnot.
Ultimately, corporate income tax has been broken for over 50 years, and it's been brought ken internationally, not just in the US.
...broken in the sense that the "rate" can be 35%, 23% or whatever and the total tax raised in an economy some number unrelated to that.
Reporting the way you suggest implies that in 2016 things were different, or that canceling that policy will yield a meaningfully different result. That's not the case.