WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) – House Speaker Paul Ryan says the Republican tax plan aims to give middle-class families financial relief, make filing taxes simple and create a better climate for Americans businesses to expand and hire workers. “The world is passing this country by. We are losing jobs and companies,” he said in a press conference. “We’ve got to modernize our tax code so we can become competitive again.” Republicans claimed that up to 90% of Americans would be able to file their taxes on a sheet of paper the size of a postcard.
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