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by aauchter 1409 days ago
The point of the article is that US manufacturers in particular will be negatively affected. More so than tech or service industries for example. The reason being that manufactures often have low rates because of accelerated depreciation of investments in capital expenditures (factories and upgrades). The law as it exists today is intentional, and is designed to encourage investment in US manufacturing, this new proposal goes directly against that.