Yes the US corporate tax rate is really high but almost no company pays anything close to that rate. How about lowering it to something reasonable (something like 20-25%) and then close all loopholes and deductions.
I entirely agree. This, coupled with a drastic increase in the marginal tax rate on high incomes. We should live in a world in which cashiers can own a home and executives make $500k to $1m/year. Not a world in which cashiers make poverty wages and executives make $50m/year.
Where the high business taxes really hit home is where it becomes more advantageous for small business owners, who are not wealthy people, to incorporate as S corps. Which taxes all their business income as personal income. That ends up being the worst of all worlds. Tax policy is screwing them, and I totally understand where the GOP is more attractive.
My parents operate an S corp in Wisconsin. Because they place contractors and have delayed reimbursements from clients, they have to meet massive payrolls at times. It's hairy and nasty, and they aren't rich. The struggle, as they say, is real. Of course, because my parents are decent human beings, they oppose Trump with every fiber of their being 
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Good points. You have to wonder what it is that has kept tax policy on small business the insane way it is.
