Pat Powers reworks industry propaganda into dry rah-rah blurb on the House Republican tax plan, which includes the hilariously bad and widely opposed Border Adjustment Tax. Power recycles the verbal trickery he needs to conceal his support for a new tax:
Business tax rates would be more affordable and products made here would no longer be taxed at higher rates than products made overseas, which is similar to other “border adjustment” policies used by over 160 countries. However, the Border Adjustment tax stands as one of the most contentious parts of the House Blueprint, with some in the Senate standing against it.
However, as we’d noted before, as opposed to complaints about the border adjustment tax costing families money, as part of a comprehensive package, the plan could save families nearly $4600 annually [Pat Powers, “Time for a Path Forward on Tax Reform in Congress,” Dakota War College, 2017.05.25].
We covered this same bad argument in March, when Pat was struggling to protect his sponsor Rep. Kristi Noem from fellow conservatives Club for Growth’s clever TV attacks on her support for the Border Adjustment Tax. Pat, Kristi, and the House GOP are advocating a new tax that will cost middle-class families $1,700 a year in increased prices on imported goods. All Pat’s squawking about the other provisions in the House GOP tax package that will save average families $4,600 a year does not change the fact that refusing to enact the Border Adjustment Tax will leave another $1,700 in the average family’s pockets.
Pat wants a new tax, the Border Adjustment Tax. Impose that tax, and we’ll have less money in our pockets than we would have otherwise.
Powers is a special little snowflake.
Special snowflake, too bad he doesn’t just melt away!!