2019年12月20日，在马里兰州安德鲁斯联合基地，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普和第一夫人梅兰妮·特朗普在s . 1709《2020财年国防授权法案》的签字仪式上向军队致意。根据国会民主党人发布的一份新报告，总统倡导的2017年减税没有兑现他们的许多承诺。
新国会报告来自联合经济委员会(JEC)的民主党人得出结论，唐纳德·特朗普总统标志性的立法成就——2017年减税——未能兑现其众多承诺。
周五发布的这份报告指出，与减税会为自己买单的保证相反，无党派国会预算办公室去年决定，减税将在11年内增加近2万亿美元的联邦债务。
JEC副主席代表卡罗琳·马洛尼在新闻发布会上说:“立法通过时，不平等已经达到历史最高水平——这让事情变得更糟。”。“而且，正如政府声称的那样，它并没有走上‘自掏腰包’的轨道相反，这将增加近2万亿美元的国债。这将使决策者更难应对下一次衰退，并已促使共和党人考虑削减医疗保险、社会保障和医疗补助。"
该报告的主要发现是，2017年的减税和就业法案导致了与该法案颁布前相同的国内生产总值平均增长，远远低于总统嘲笑的6%的增长率。
2018年前几个季度，当该法律开始生效时，经济增长率似乎很高。尽管在随后的几个月里有所下降，但JEC民主党发现平均增长率保持不变。
该报告还发现了新商业投资中的类似模式。2018年初，商业投资增长达到了几年来的最高水平。然而，这一增长速度很快下降，以至于商业投资的平均增长最终下降到低于实施削减之前的水平。
马洛尼补充道:“随着共和党减税政策出台两年，我们现在有了足够的经济数据，可以肯定地说，这些措施没有为美国工人和家庭带来好处。”。“报告显示，2017年税法既没有持续提振国内生产总值增长，也没有显著增加企业投资，并导致家庭收入大幅增加。美国人感到被欺骗是对的。”
有报道称，政府正考虑在2020年大选前对中产阶级实施更有针对性的减税措施，总统采取行动为自己推动的2017年减税措施辩护，称这是对中产阶级家庭的“大规模纾困”。
“我们认为我们可以把它降得更低，”他说说11月。
就在2018年中期选举之前，特朗普一再向选民提出削减10%中产阶级税收的想法。
“我们将在下周半到两周内的某个时间在[提出一项决议，我们将给予中等收入者大约10%的减税，”他说讲述记者。
国会没有考虑这样的提议。
JEC共和党成员的发言人没有回应置评请求。
NEW CONGRESSIONAL REPORT FINDS 2017 TAX CUTS DID NOT LIVE UP TO PROMISES
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump greet troops at the signing ceremony for S.1709, The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 on December 20, 2019 in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. The 2017 tax cuts championed by the president did not live up to their many promises, according to a new report released by congressional Democrats.
A new congressional report from Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) has concluded that President Donald Trump's signature legislative accomplishment, the 2017 tax cuts, failed to live up to its numerous promises.
Released Friday, the report noted that, contrary to guarantees that the tax cuts would pay for themselves, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office last year determined that the cuts will instead add nearly $2 trillion to the federal debt over 11 years.
"Inequality was already at an all-time high when the legislation was passed—it made things much worse," JEC vice-chair Representative Carolyn B. Maloney said in a press release. "And it isn't on track—as the administration had claimed—to 'pay for itself;' instead, it will add almost $2 trillion to the national debt. That will make it harder for policymakers to fight the next recession and has already prompted Republicans to consider cuts to Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid."
Among the report's top findings was that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has resulted in average GDP growth identical to growth prior to the law's enactment, and far beneath the 6-percent growth that had been teased by the president.
In the first few quarters of 2018, when the law began to take effect, economic growth appeared high. Although after dropping off in the subsequent months, the JEC Democrats found that average growth remained unchanged.
The report also found similar patterns among new business investments. In the beginning of 2018, growth in business investment attained some of its highest levels in years. However this growth quickly declined, so much so that average growth in business investment eventually sank to levels lower than before the cuts were enacted.
"With the two-year anniversary of the Republican tax cuts upon us, we now have enough economic data to say definitively that they failed to deliver for American workers and families," Maloney added. "The report shows that the 2017 tax law didn't provide a sustained boost to GDP growth, nor did it significantly increase business investment and result in huge gains in household income. Americans would be right to feel cheated."
Amid reports that the administration was considering enacting more targeted tax cuts towards the middle class ahead of the 2020 election, the president moved to defend his push for the 2017 cuts, calling them a "massive relief" for middle-class families.
"We think we can bring it down still more," he said in November.
Just before the midterm elections in 2018, Trump repeatedly floated the idea a 10-percent middle class tax cut to voters.
"We're putting in a resolution sometime in the next week and a half to two weeks [and] we're giving a middle-income tax reduction of about 10 percent," he told reporters.
No such proposal was considered by Congress.
A spokesperson for the JEC's Republican membership did not respond to a request for comment.
