thrived, and the family income of all families was increasing more and more and it was a beautiful sight to behold. since then other nations have adopted our playbook and ran it even better than we did. and i shouldn't say even better than we did, because we didn't run it well at all and we let other countries take our jobs away and taking it out, and we are stopping it, and you've seen it right now what we've done. and today our total tax base is 60 prsz higher than our average foreign competitor in the developed world. that's not good. we have sur ended our competitive edge to other countries, but we are not surrendering anymore. under our framework we will cut the tax rate so american companies and workers can beat