Root: Tax reform, repealing Obamacare must be Donald Trump’s priority

(Wayne Allyn Root, Las Vegas Review-Journal) – Here’s my message to President Trump and the GOP Congress: We’re dying out here.

The latest rumors in the media are that the GOP Congress is scared of repealing the Obamacare taxes. And while President Donald Trump has done a fantastic job in his first few weeks — in my opinion, the best start for a conservative president in history — it appears he and his team are tackling corporate income tax cuts first.

That’s not good enough.

The economy is dying. Barack Obama left President Trump with a mess on his hands. A disaster looms — not for corporations, but for individual taxpayers. We now have concrete proof on multiple fronts.

First, the gross domestic product for Obama’s final quarter was a miserable 1.9 percent. Worse, the GDP for Obama’s entire last year was 1.6 percent. Those are tragic recession numbers.

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