The American Action Network, a center-right nonprofit advocacy group, has announced a new ad campaign in support of the newly announced Republican-led tax reform framework.
The ad features American Action Forum president Douglas Holtz-Eakin arguing for how tax reform will improve the economy and improve quality of life for America's middle class.
"The tax reform framework released by the White House, the House, and the Senate, is a commitment to fix our broken tax code, and in the process, fix our broken economy," Holtz-Eakin says. "We're going to have tax relief for working families. There is going to be a doubling of the standard deduction, so much less income is going to get taxed, [a] much bigger child credit for those who are raising their kids, a tax cut for small businesses, and a tax code that says build it in America, hire in America, give a raise in America."
"The tax code is broken, in part, because it's just too complicated. It is tens of thousands of pages long; it needs to be modernized and simple," Holtz-Eakin explains. "The tax reform framework promises to eliminate a lot of loopholes. That makes things simpler; it also makes it fairer. And large corporations will no longer have incentives to park their money overseas, hire overseas, and sell outside the United States. They're going to be here, hiring Americans, and reinvesting in this economy."
Holtz-Eakin then says how the current Republican tax reform plan will impact working Americans.
"The promise of the framework to working families is: you're going to pay less in taxes," Holtz-Eakin says. "But the bigger promise is: you're going to pay less in taxes out of a bigger paycheck."
The right-leaning issue advocacy group previously announced its support of the plan last week.
AAN's ad will target 42 key—primarily Republican—congressional districts across the country. The group's aim is to ensure Republicans are all on the same page, and are able to pass large-scale tax reform, a long-standing but elusive goal of the party.
UPDATED 12:18 P.M.: This article previously identified Holtz-Eakin as president of the American Action Network; he is president of the American Action Forum, AAN's sister organization.