IF YOU need to place a policymaker on the spot, ask them what the highest charge of revenue tax must be. The query befuddles everybody. On Could eighth President Donald Trump broke with many years of Republican conference when he reportedly urged Mike Johnson, the speaker of the Home of Representatives, to extend America’s highest federal levy on incomes from 37% to 39.6%, the place it stood earlier than the president’s personal reforms in 2017. Mr Trump then took to social media to announce that though he would “graciously settle for” such a change “as a way to assist the decrease and center revenue employees”, Republicans in Congress “ought to most likely not do it”. He’s however “OK in the event that they do”.