Matters will be made still worse for the international competitiveness of American corporations as they are now being burdened with the highest corporate tax rate in the world at 39.2%.
Ordinarily, a question of whether to reauthorize the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) and to increase its loan limit would be about as uncontroversial a proposition as one could find on Capitol Hill. Ex-Im provides an important counterpart to the government-guaranteed loans our international competitors use to encourage their industries’ exports. And it actually makes money for the Treasury.