March 4, 2026
Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said, “No one’s been able to find any econometric evidence showing conclusively that these rules actually encourage economic growth at all. If anything, the most obvious takeaway is that these tax breaks are simply rewarding companies for doing what they were going to do anyway.”
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