Tax-reform and cut fight about to hit Missouri TV screens, with first attack on McCaskill
All three -- Sen.
"We are going to be holding these three vulnerable
Phillips also issued a warning for
Rep.
Sen.
"It would dramatically harm Republican chances in 2018 if they failed on this front, especially coming on the heels of the health care failure. The stakes are high, no question about that," Phillips said.
The ads about to run on Missouri TV say McCaskill "is standing in the way of a simple, fair, tax system."
When Trump released the outline of his tax-reform plan, which reduces the number of brackets on personal income, and reduces the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent, some
McCaskill and a cluster of other
But McCaskill also raised concerns about the impact of the revisions on the deficit. She said she was especially concerned about "pass-through" provisions, which could potentially allow individual incomes of wealthy Americans to be taxed, instead, at lower corporate rates.
"What I am really worried about is whether or not we are creating a loophole on this pass-through tax," McCaskill told the
Phillips called Trump's framework "a good starting point. It is not the be-all-end-all to the standpoint that it has detailed every single provision."
He added: "I know that is a work in progress on figuring out the pass-through rate, and that is something that I hope
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One of the targets of those ads is Bost, who faces a challenge from
Phillips said that his group does not draw "red lines" on whether it would go after
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