{"id":1673,"date":"2017-12-22T21:04:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2017-12-22T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:11:00","slug":"tax-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"tax reform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 Tax Bill was signed into law today by President Trump.\u00a0 In a George Will op-ed piece that appeared today, he writes:\u00a0 &#8220;&#8230;a presidential assistant calls this year&#8217;s tax legislation &#8216;the most significant tax reform we&#8217;ve had since 1986.&#8221;&#8216;\u00a0 Which is like bragging about the tallest building in Boise.\u00a0 The 1986 tax reform radically simplified the tax code.\u00a0 Since then, the code has acquired more than 15,000 new wrinkles.\u00a0 The 2017 tax legislation might &#8212; this is difficult to measure &#8212; have managed the minor miracle of making the 70,000 page code more complicated.&#8221;\u00a0 My campaign&#8217;s tax reform, conversely, would make the tax system a <em>whole<\/em> lot less complicated.\u00a0 There would be an easy one-page form, for practically everyone &#8212; with a simplified progressive tax.\u00a0 Loopholes, etc., would be all but eliminated.\u00a0 (There are currently some 173 of them.)\u00a0 Why eliminate most?\u00a0 Because American taxpayers currently spend approximately $200 billion and 5.4 billion hours working to comply with federal taxes each year.\u00a0 Time that could be better spent.\u00a0 Money that could be better spent.\u00a0 That simple.\u00a0 For more on our tax policy proposal,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/taxes\"> see&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_7\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 Tax Bill was signed into law today by President Trump.\u00a0 In a George Will op-ed piece that appeared today, he writes:\u00a0 &#8220;&#8230;a presidential assistant calls this year&#8217;s tax legislation &#8216;the most significant tax reform we&#8217;ve had since 1986.&#8221;&#8216;\u00a0 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1673\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}