thanks, eric. many american companies are looking to move their headquarters out of america, and abroad to avoid the 35% corporate tax rate here in the u.s. the highest in the developed world. on tuesday, treasury secretary, jack lew, sent a letter to house ways and means committee chairman, david camp, saying our country needs a new sense of economic patriotism. joining us is maya macguineas, from the committee for responsible budget, one of the foremost experts on tax policy. good to see you. thank you for joining us. what's your assessment of this letter that jack lew sent to dave camp? >> i have to say, we all know what's going to fix the situation, and it is really a threatening situation to the economy, which is we need to reform the tax code. and so his call for economic patriotism, frankly, i found insulting and meaningless, right? it's not really going to do anything to change the environment, and it's sort of implied that companies doing what they have to do to deal
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