Question about "permanent" tax cuts

[George II]

Can't a future Congress repeal tax cuts that are passed now as "permanent"? I can't believe that a bad law/tax cut/etc. can't be reversed anytime in the future.

[unblock]

1. of course it can. "permanent" in this context only means they don't come with an expiration date.

other parts of the bill are scheduled to expire, particularly right before the 10 year mark so they don't add to the deficit after that point.

[MiniMe]

2. Yes, but it remains law until another congress passes a law, and it is signed

The middle class tax "cuts" in the bill expire after 5 or 10 years

[el_bryanto]

3. Many tax cuts, I believe are set up to sunset or to end unless renewed.

Because it's a lot easier to get congress to do nothing than to do something; that means that in theory the hit to the revenue of the United States won't be as deep. If they make the taxcuts permenent than you have to get congress to do something; which they probably can do, but it would be considerably more difficult.

Or that's my take; I could be wrong.

Bryant

[maui902]

4. Any law passed by Congress can be overturned or repealed by a future Congress

It's just a matter of how many votes are required to do so. In this case, the tax bill proposed by Senate Republicans provides that most of tax cuts aimed at the middle class expire after 10 years while at the same time the tax cuts aimed at businesses are not set to expire (somewhat misleadingly, the latter being regarded as "permanent&quot . The real story is that the middle class tax cuts are slated to expire to avoid the rule that requires a 60 vote majority in the Senate; if any bill proposed in the Senate leads to budget deficits more than 10 years from passage, then the bill requires 60 votes to pass. Because Republicans know they can't get 60 votes, which would require at least 8 and maybe more Democrats/Independents to approve this terrible bill, they've created a bill that can pass with only Republican support, but they'll need at least 50 to get there.

[Angleae]

5. It would take a constitutional amendment to make it "permanent"

Any law can be changed or ended by another law

[Demsrule86]

6. yes...it means no sunset...and this Congress is going to be kicked to the curb even with a

gerrymander so I think we get back the house and Senate stop Trumps court packing...and then in 20 get a Dem elected and fix what Trump and the GOP did.

[wishstar]

7. Can be reversed, but raising taxes later would be much harder to get passed

That's what Repubs are counting on along with the phased- in eventual tax increases for lower income individuals that are disguised in this bill.