Rubio makes the case for tax reform is vital to Americans

There is no doubt in the minds of every single Republican legislator that if the  U.S. tax code is not reformed, the GOP will lose the majority in the congress, and could make President Trump a one term president.

Tax reform is that important to not just Republicans, but to all Americans that found themselves struggling to make ends meet because of an unfair and antiquated tax code.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) along with other prominent members of the U.S. Congress like Sens Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, as well as House members Reps. Ron DeSantis and Matt Gaetz, have taken up the tax code reform challenge.

Rubio recently penned an op-ed in the New York Times to talk tax cuts for all:

Having kids is one of life’s greatest experiences. It’s also expensive. Between school supplies and summer camps, sports and doctor’s visits, raising children increasingly takes more and more money. I should know — my wife, Jeanette, and I have four. We’ve been blessed in recent years, but I know what it’s like to start a family and struggle to make ends meet. My parents were immigrants who came to America with virtually nothing, and after I finished law school, I owed more than $100,000 in student loans.

Note: Rubio still owes me the $2 I lent him years ago to tip a valet at some Miami Hotel

There’s a reason many people feel it’s harder to afford children now than in previous generations. It’s true. According to federal data adjusted for inflation, from 1960 to 2015 the average annual cost of raising a child in a middle-income family rose by over $11,000. It’s now estimated that middle-class parents will spend more than $230,000 over the course of their son or daughter’s childhood — and that doesn’t even include college tuition.

Ask just about any couple and they’ll tell you this absolutely influences their decisions about when to have children and how many to have. As the economist Lyman Stone has shown, by 2012, the average number of children American women intended to have was 2.37, and the total fertility rate was 1.88 — a gap of about 0.5 children on average. Since the 1960s, there has been a consistent gap between intended and total fertility, even as the number of children American women desire to have and the total birthrate have declined over time.

There are many causes for this gap, but the increasing cost of childbearing clearly has played a role in its development. For example, think of families who delayed having children for a few years until they were more financially stable and may not have been able to have as many as they initially wanted. Or parents who wanted more children, but after their first or second realized they couldn’t afford the combined cost of taking care of the child and reducing their work hours. The German economist Anna Raute has isolated this “opportunity cost” of childbearing as a significant factor in fertility decisions.

Tax reform is a key part of reinvigorating the American dream so that couples have the flexibility to choose how to best start and raise a family. The status quo means the cost of having children makes those choices for them, resulting in smaller families, riskier pregnancies, longer commutes from more affordable exurbs and more missed recitals.-via press release

Florida Democrats like Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Lois Frankel and Ted Deutch are expected to fight the tax cuts Republicans are proposing, saying that only the rich will benefit from the tax cuts, when in reality, all Americans and business will find some degree of comfort with a new tax code.

With massive tax giveaways to the wealthy and deep cuts to Medicaid, #Trumpcare is a dream for billionaires and a nightmare for seniors.

— D Wasserman Schultz (@DWStweets) July 6, 2017

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