With the release of his tax cut proposal Wednesday, President Donald Trump Donald John TrumpHR McMaster says president's policy to withdraw troops from Afghanistan is 'unwise' Cast of 'Parks and Rec' reunite for virtual town hall to address Wisconsin voters Biden says Trump should step down over coronavirus response MORE laid the groundwork for accomplishing several goals: He protected the House majority in 2018 and ensured five to eight Senate pickups that year. He all but guaranteed his own re-election in 2020. He lessened the dangers of trade wars, reduced the number of lobbyists in Washington, D.C., drove a big wedge between Silicon Valley and the Democrat party, and set the stage for Republicans to drive their congressional and state legislative majorities down to cities and counties.

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Cutting the corporate tax rate from the non-competitive 35 percent to 15 percent and the tax on small businesses that pay taxes though their personal income tax returns from 44 percent to 15 percent, Trump has created the most pro-growth tax policy in modern history. Reagan's tax cut was less powerful. And Reagan's tax cut created four million jobs in the first year it took full effect (1983) and increased growth to 4 percent a year.

Two years of Reagan 4 percent growth led to the 1984 landslide where Reagan won 49 of the 50 states. Speedy passage of Trump's tax package will drive GDP growth and job creation…in time for the 2018 congressional elections and the 2020 presidential election.

The lower tax rate for business — Britain is 20 percent — will make us more internationally competitive and reduce the argument for tariffs and the danger of trade wars. Growth — as during the Reagan years — makes immigration reform possible because it removes the fear that low employment levels are caused by immigration rather than stupid and destructive American tax policy.

"Not too shabby: Trump tax plan nails corporate rate, errs on income" https://t.co/jdfZ7NS5oX pic.twitter.com/K6K9ePtGhI — The Hill (@thehill) April 27, 2017

A 15 percent tax rate makes all the tax deductions that lobbyists have inserted in the code as protection against a 35 percent rate less valuable. And that makes special interest lobbyists less valuable.

Tax deduction lobbyists will be defanged and devalued. What they sell their clients has just been made half as valuable. And expanding the personal exemption for individual and families makes each itemized personal deduction less important or even irrelevant to millions of Americans.

For eight years Obama and Democrat fundraisers promised Silicon Valley Democrats would allow them to bring their overseas earnings back. They, uh, lied. Trump is delivering on repatriation, territoriality and a competitive low tax rate — the key need of every Silicon Valley entrepreneur. This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

And corrupt big city machines have for decades told taxpayers, “don't mind our high property taxes, the feds will pay much of it through the deductibility of state and local taxes.” Democrat governors said, "Don't mind high income rates, the feds pay much of it." With the elimination of the deductibility of state and local taxes Democrat mayors will have to pay for every penny they take.

GOP leaders say Trump tax plan will guide future policy https://t.co/ZL3DLJxRFk pic.twitter.com/wd0WJfF7At — The Hill (@thehill) April 26, 2017

And they will pay politically. Deductibility of state and local tax cuts has long been an argument for higher local taxes and against local tax cuts. Back in 1978, Governor Jerry Brown used this argument — unsuccessfully — against Proposition 13. Republican tax-reducing candidates will have a leg up and tax hiking Dems will now dance on marbles during these debates. Look for more Republican mayors courtesy of this tax reform.

Growth equals jobs. The wind is at the back of the GOP in 2018 and 2020 — and just think of how much fun Republicans can have running against all the Democrats who voted no. A powerful promise kept with Silicon Valley. A once skeptical business community empowered worldwide by Trump’s tax cut. Reduced tensions on trade and immigration. And a body blow to the tax and spend politics that have driven our more corrupt and failed cities.

Not bad for one day’s work.

Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform. Follow him on Twitter @GroverNorquist.

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