John Engler: Trading Tax Breaks for Lower Rates
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Channel: FORA.tv · 2012 · Entertainment
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2012/03/22/Monitor_Breakfast_Business_Roundtable_Head_John_Engler Business Roundtable head John Engler discusses his group's proposal to eliminate tax breaks in order to lower the corporate tax rate to a flat 25%. "I think there is a willingness to be very creative and to be very courageous on this, but the key is that the rate has to go low enough to justify it," he argues. ---- During a conversation with journalists at a Monitor Breakfast, Business Roundtable President John Engler discusses the state of U.S. business. John Engler is president of the Business Roundtable (BRT), an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. corporations with a combined workforce of more than 14 million workers and over $6 trillion in annual revenues. A former three-term governor of Michigan, Engler assumed the leadership of Business Roundtable in January 2011 after serving six years as president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers.
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