Det verkar som att vi eventuellt kan se baksidan av skattereformen så tidigt som nu i februari, denna baksida är förstås att man måste höja skuldtaket tidigare än vad man hade hoppats på.
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The U.S. government’s cash reserves are expected to run out faster than expected, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday, a result of lost revenue from last year’s tax cut law.
If the debt ceiling isn’t raised by the first half of March, CBO said, “the government would be unable to pay its obligations fully, and it would delay making payments for its activities, default on its debt obligations, or both.”
The White House and GOP leaders in Congress have repeatedly punted decisions on how to deal with the debt ceiling. This is in sharp contrast to the approach Republicans took during the Obama administration, when the GOP insisted on deep spending cuts in exchange for any vote to raise the debt ceiling...
...CBO said that the tax law is expected to lower tax receipts by $10 billion to $15 billion per month. Even though the tax cut law went into effect January 1, the large drop in tax receipts didn’t kick in yet because companies won’t start using new withholding tables until sometime in February.
“Withheld receipts are expected to be less than the amounts paid in the comparable period last year,” CBO said. “In addition, the government ran a deficit of $23 billion in December, and it normally runs a deficit in the second quarter of the fiscal year.”
In total, the tax law will lead to a drop in revenue of $136 billion in revenue in 2018, the Joint Committee on Taxation has estimated.
The White House and many Republicans have praised the tax law, pointing to announcements from numerous companies that they are raising wages and plan to invest more in the United States. But there had been less scrutiny of the tax law’s near-term impact on the government’s fiscal situation before CBO weighed in on Wednesday.
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Det kommer att bli intressant och se om de lyckas eller väljer att höja taket, men det kommer även att bli intressant och se vad som händer om USA inte kan det utan måste förklara sig som bankrutt, för som vi redan vet så har DoW varit ostadig de senaste 6 dagarna och om de inte kan höja skuldtaket så kan vi se USA gå in i en ekonomisk kris som får den under 2008 att blekna i jämförelse.
