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My knee-jerk reaction is to be in favor of tax cuts, but with these things I try to find relevant survey questions on IGMChicago Economic Experts panel: http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel

Here's one that's close, although it focuses on repatriated profits http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/repatriated-profits

> Question B: Permanently lowering the effective marginal tax rate on US corporations’ repatriated profits, such as by moving to a territorial-based tax system, would boost US capital investment significantly.

The economists' answers were very mixed and half of them answered "uncertain" or "no opinion". :-/ muh cognitive bias!

mmanfrin points at that tax havens are the problem, here's a NYTimes opinion piece advocating for 0% corporate tax rates as a way to encourage companies to repatriate their profits: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/opinion/abolish-the-corpo...




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