22. Department of the Treasury

Pg. 697) Many gifts to the already wealthy, including making Trump’s ludicrously high estate and gift tax increase permanent.
(Pg. 697) “Wages vs. Benefits” What does this mean to regular people?
(Pg. 698) They favor regressive taxes such as a “consumption tax”, that harm the poor the most, flavors du jour – “a national sales tax, a business transfer tax, a Hall–Rabushka flat tax, or a cash flow tax.”
(Pg. 699) As more wealthy tax cheaters are caught, the GOP would like more people at the top, who could conceivably prevent investigations of their friends to be presidential appointees.
(Pg. 706) Dismantle Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (potential windfall for hedge funds and other investors. GOP pissed that profits go to U.S. Treasury instead of shareholders.) and “right-sizing” Federal Housing Administration and the Government National Mortgage Association
(Pg. 706) They want to privatize the Common Securitization Platform. Assume profit motive.
(Pg. 707) “Congress should repeal the Corporate Transparency Act (prevents money laundering and anonymous shell corporations and FinCEN should withdraw its poorly written and overbroad beneficial ownership reporting rule.”
(Pg. 708) Start a witchhunt for administrators who instituted CRT and DEI initiatives.
(Pg. 709) “reverse support for international public- (and private-) based efforts promoting Environmental, Social, and Governance and Principles for Responsible Investment…”