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Hello, welcome to another episode of The Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew Glacias.

Joining me today we have Andrew Prokop in the GC office and Dylan Matthews, who has a band

in us for the greener pastures of Greater New York, New Jersey. Glad to have you guys here.

I wanted to talk about tax reform. Serena Ezor and I talked about this a little bit on Wednesday's

episode, but it's a big deal. This is a big sort of organizing principle for the Republican party.

It's going to be an overarching sort of theme in Congress. And it's also not really clear that it's going to happen in any way.

Dylan and Andrew have both recently written great stories about this.

I thought it'd start Dylan with, can you lay out a little bit what was in this tax framework that got released?

What is it? What is a framework even?

Sure. The framework is not a finished piece of legislation and the people touting it in the White House in Congress

are sure to tell you this because it's a way to get out of answering a lot of specific questions about it.

But it does lay out, it's sort of like a campaign plan. It's like that level of specificity.

And so it's laying out roughly what they think the tax rates on the individual side should be, what tax breaks they're willing to close,

what they are going to try to get the corporate rate down to, and then sort of a few assorted other measures.

So I think two of the few things that Republicans agree on and have agreed on for years

are that we should get rid of the estate tax and the alternative minimum tax.

And so it includes that and then gets into sort of slightly more detail about what to do with corporate and individual taxes.

So the corporate side, the big thing is that they're going to try to cut the rate from 35 to 20%.

That's obviously a very, very large percentage cut.

And they claim that this is going to happen through some changes to the base so that you're using the lower rate

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