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About Lambert Strether
Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (“Because markets”). I don’t much care about the “ism” that delivers the benefits, although whichever one does have to put common humanity first, as opposed to markets. Could be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. I don’t much care, as long as the benefits are delivered.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Pens Op-Ed In Wall Street Journal Date
07/04/2021
Today, in an op-ed to be published in the April 8, 2021, edition of The Wall Street Journal, Secretary Janet L. Yellen called for an end to the global race to the bottom on corporate taxes. This is also a provision of the Made in America Tax Plan, a part of President Biden’s American Jobs Plan, that will accelerate American competitiveness.
A Better Corporate Tax for America
Our plan reverses the mistakes of 2017 and puts the U.S. on a path to sustainable prosperity.
By Janet Yellen
When Congress enacted the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017, the result was a dramatic reduction in corporate tax revenue. Over the past three years, corporate tax collections have fallen to their lowest level since World War II: 1% of gross domestic product. Many of the country’s largest companies paid no federal taxes in 2020.