Tax Cuts: JFK and Reagan Did It

President Trump and Republican lawmakers have plenty of legislative disagreements, but there is one issue that entirely unites them: tax cuts.

It isn’t getting the fullest attention it deserves from the liberal news media here, but there hasn’t been this much unity among Republicans on a transformative economic issue since Ronald Reagan.

Trump has become much more focused on his tax cut agenda in recent weeks and drawing strong reviews from the GOP’s establishment economists — from Lawrence Kudlow, one of the GOP’s chief voices on economic policy, to Kevin Hassett, formerly with the American Enterprise Institute, who is now the president’s economic adviser.

“Trump has seized and energized the tax cut issue,” Kudlow wrote this week in his newspaper column. “Almost daily, he is pounding away on the themes of faster economic growth and more take-home pay, arguing that his plan will make America’s economy great again.”

“This is Trumpian leadership at its best,” he said.

For much of this year, Trump has talked about his economic revival plan in generalities. But lately, he has been amplifying his rhetoric and discussing the impact of the tax cuts with more specifics, as he did this week at his White House news conference and in his speeches.

“Under my administration, the era of economic surrender is over,” he told the National Association of Manufacturers.

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