A Broken Promise on Taxes

The Daily

• Episode: A Broken Promise on Taxes
• Website: The Daily
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• Duration: 00:21:56
• Published: 2019-11-19 11:49

As they lobbied the Trump administration for a $1.5 trillion tax cut, corporations vowed to invest the savings back into the U.S. economy. Today, we investigate whether they made good on that promise.

Guest: Jim Tankersley, who covers economic and tax policy for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

Background reading:

• FedEx’s leadership lobbied unsuccessfully for tax reform for years. Then it wrote its own tax proposal for President Trump — cutting the company’s corporate tax rate to zero.
• How the Trump administration’s tax cuts may have affected you, and why you might not believe it.