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Comment by chrisfosterelli

There's a lot of attacking in this thread from people who haven't bothered to think about the math. It's an existential risk to some companies, and one that wasn't more widely planned for because it wasn't even believed to be intended to actually occur.

Most tax experts considered the removal a budget gimmick so that the 2017 December republican majority could quickly pass a new budget using the budget reconciliation process, which can't be used to increase the deficit after a 10-year period so they had to add a time limit to a bunch of benefits "on paper" to use the reconciliation process. There appeared to be broad support for fixing it later, but the bipartisan spending bill expected to include it fell apart because they couldn't get agreement on other parts of it.

To the best I can tell this isn't tech companies complaining about paying fair tax; it's a congressional oversight that is quadrupling the taxes of small business out of nowhere which nobody in power has bothered to fix.

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