WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union speech on Tuesday night will offer an “optimistic” and “forward-looking” view, according to his White House. Both the 1981 Ronald Reagan tax cuts and the 2001 George W. Bush tax cuts (made permanent by President Barack Obama in 2012) were larger. In all, seven tax cuts have been larger than the recent tax package as a percentage of the total economy, and three have been larger in inflation-adjusted dollars. Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress last February, for example, brought praise from unlikely sources. “Will President Trump stay on message afterwards and sell the agenda?

Source: Huffington Post January 30, 2018 04:52 UTC