{"id":339811,"date":"2017-12-16T22:59:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T21:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-tax-cut-bill-goes-public-as-gop-slashes-rates-for-the-wealthy\/"},"modified":"2017-12-16T22:59:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T21:59:52","slug":"prison-planet-com-tax-cut-bill-goes-public-as-gop-slashes-rates-for-the-wealthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-tax-cut-bill-goes-public-as-gop-slashes-rates-for-the-wealthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Tax cut bill goes public as GOP slashes rates for the wealthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5185023\/GOP-tax-cut-bill-slashes-rates-kills-Obamacare-penalty.html\"><strong>Daily Mail<\/strong><\/a><br \/>December 16, 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><strong>Republicans\u00a0released their long-awaited tax overhaul bill late Friday afternoon, drawing months of negotiations to a close and setting up a pair of final votes on Monday and Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">President Donald Trump has promised to deliver tax relief as a Christmas present. He ran on a pledge of making it happen and the Republican Party is betting that voters flush with newfound money will reward them at the polls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act creates seven new tax brackets, including a 37 per cent rate \u2013 down from 39.6 per cent \u2013 for top-end wage earners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The new rates start at 10 per cent and rise to 12, 22, 24, 32, 35 and 37 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The bill also lowers the top corporate tax rate from 35 per cent to 21 per cent, the largest such reduction in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5185023\/GOP-tax-cut-bill-slashes-rates-kills-Obamacare-penalty.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Saturday, December 16, 2017  at  6:09 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/tax-cut-bill-goes-public-as-gop-slashes-rates-for-the-wealthy.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/tax-cut-bill-goes-public-as-gop-slashes-rates-for-the-wealthy.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily MailDecember 16, 2017 Republicans\u00a0released their long-awaited tax overhaul bill late Friday afternoon, drawing months of negotiations to a close and setting up a pair of final votes on Monday and Tuesday. President Donald Trump has promised to deliver tax relief as a Christmas present. He ran on a pledge of making it happen and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-339811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}