The Republican tax plan will soon enter American law. The bill passed the Senate in the early hours of Saturday, and will now be reconciled to the not-too-different House version, readying it for the presidential pen. The vote fell strictly on party lines amid an ugly frenzy of last-second amendments scribbled in the margins. Even the senators did not know precisely what they were voting on. So it is worth taking a step back to consider, in broad outline, the changes that the plan will bring.
美國共和黨的稅改計劃很快將成為法律。上周六凌晨,該法案在參議院獲得通過,現在將與大同小異的眾議院版本進行協調,隨后遞交給總統簽署。投票嚴格按照黨派站隊,在最后一秒匆匆加入了很多修正(瘋狂的“馬拉松連續投票”程序)。甚至連參議員們自己都并非準確知道自己在為怎樣的法案投票。因此現在有必要退一步,大致考慮一下,這項稅改計劃將帶來哪些變化。