Over in the opinion pages of The New York Times today you will find an unintentionally hilarious piece by Stephen Forbes, Larry Kudlow, Arthur B. Laffer, and Stephen Moore, the co-founders of the equally hilariously named Committee to Unleash Prosperity, who advised Donald Trump's campaign on economic policy. If the name of their organization didn’t give it away, the four men are the type of Republicans who display large-scale oil paintings of Ronald Reagan in their living rooms and think there was no better time in American history than the years between 1981 and 1989. They’re happy, of course, that a real-estate tycoon won the election, but lately, they’re feeling pretty frustrated that Trump hasn’t scrapped everything else on his presidential to-do list and made tax reform his top priority. Why are Trump and Republicans “making tax reform so hard?” the quartet wants to know, not acknowledging that tax reform is hard. But, luckily, they have a solution that they’re confident would make old the Gipper proud: use the plan they wrote last year and get it through Congress A.S.A.P. What’s left to think about?

First, cut the federal corporate and small-business highest tax rate to 15 percent from 35 percent, which is now one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world.

Second, allow businesses to immediately deduct the full cost of their capital purchases. Full expensing of new factories, equipment, and machinery will jump-start business investment, which since 2000 has grown at only one-third the rate recorded from 1950 to 2000.

Third, impose a low tax on the repatriation of foreign profits brought back to the United States. This could attract more than $2 trillion to these shores, raising billions for the Treasury Department while creating new jobs and adding to the United States’ gross domestic product.

Simple. To win over Democrats, the men suggest Trump throw in some infrastructure spending and “emphasize that business tax relief is not a sellout to corporations but a boon for middle-class workers,” wink-wink. Trump and the G.O.P. should also scrap the proposed border-adjustment tax (“a poison pill for the tax plan”) and drop any ludicrous pretensions about imposing a carbon tax (reportedly supported by known Communist Gary Cohn). The president, writes Forbes, Kudlow, Laffer, and Moore, “should demand that Congress send him a jobs bill this summer that he can sign into law on August 13, 2017.” The significance of that date? It’s “the day President Reagan signed his historic tax cut in 1981 at his beloved Ranch del Cielo in Santa Barbara, California.” You can almost hear them wiping away the tears.