Think the corporate tax system is broken? Go ahead, try to fix it.
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Almost everyone in Washington wants to lower the corporate tax rate. President Obama wants to go from today鈥檚 35 percent down to 28 percent. Governor Romney and Ways and Means Chairman Camp want to get to 25 percent.
There鈥檚 just one problem: paying for it. To offset the costs of cutting rates, policymakers will need to roll back tax preferences, each of which has powerful defenders.
To illustrate the challenges, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget just released a聽nifty corporate tax reform that shows how your revenue goals and willingness to cut tax preferences affect what tax rate you have to accept.
Bottom line: going low is harder than it sounds.