Norquist: tax-hike triggers are a self-fulfilling threat to kill jobs

Today the U.S. Senate Budget Committee took an important step toward enacting tax reform. Regarding a rumored tax hike trigger, ATR president Grover Norquist said the following:

“The key to pro-growth tax reform is permanence and certainty. This encourages job creating investment. No one invests in response to ‘maybe.’ A trigger that threatens tax hikes is a self-fulfilling threat to kill jobs.”