It's interesting to reflect who creates the tax laws (your government) and who sets the budgets and manpower numbers (your government).
On the subject of Tax Reform, the scandal of multinationals and billionaires using tax havens to dodge tax is recognised as a worldwide problem and the Trumper has published a (very thin) tax reform proposal.
For some reason his plan is to make life easier for the rich and harder for the poor. He must have hear someone mention wealth redistribution. Robin Hood in reverse. He was elected by the disgruntled medium-poor so perhaps he wants more of them
"The Tax Policy Center estimates that the proposals would lower federal revenues by $2.4tn over the first 10 years: $2.6tn in cuts in taxation of corporations and another $240bn lost through elimination of the estate and gift taxes, offset by about $470bn in increased revenues from individual income tax.
In all, it estimates: “Taxpayers in the top 1 per cent (incomes above $730,000) would receive about 50 per cent of the total tax benefit; their after-tax income would increase an average of 8.5 per cent.” Those in the top 0.1 per cent would gain by 10.2 per cent.
But “taxpayers in the bottom 95 per cent of the income distribution would see average after-tax incomes increase between 0.5 and 1.2 per cent”. This is a regressive plan misrepresented as the opposite. "
"That reform is needed is clear. Despite having such a high marginal tax rate, the US does not generate much revenue by the standards of other big, high-income countries. The combination of high rates, with weak revenues and huge incentives to leave money abroad is impossible to defend."
https://www.ft.com/content/de0b54c0-a50e-11e7-9e4f-7f5e6a7c98a2
