Accomplishing that, however, required petitioning to have the secrecy order lifted as the years passed with his invention living in the shadows. Itâs a common refrain in the stump speeches of politicians that America is a nation of ideas, but Congress decided in 1951 that some of those ideas must nonetheless be kept hidden.
ATR Analysis of Donald Trump Tax Reform Plan. GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump released details of his tax reform plan today. It features a system with much lower tax rates than current law, and a broadened tax base for high income earners. âTrumpâs plan is certainly consistent with the Taxpayer Protection Pledge,â said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. âTrump has said he opposes net tax hikes and has made clear that the real problem is spending.
Trump expressed dismay with the news media for saying the tax package was his first legislative achievement, nothing that he enacted laws related to veterans earlier this year. But he described the tax bill as the capper and the biggest reform of all time. He also offered to give the pens he used to sign the legislation to members of the media assembled in the Oval Office.