Do John Q. Public general voters need to start paying exceptional attention here before responsibly balloting in 2018?

How much after-tax profit the business keeps for every dollar.

2017's GOP tax reform story is predicted within what can only reveal to the future how once again a Pete R' Pete clone while imperious toward January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009's  failures at best only passed along another round in sameness that produced substantially even greater taxpayer burdens where former's and corporations alike as thirsty mules drawn to water were unable to resist an open season too system Sin and exploit in no consequence. 

corporate malfeasance—bribery, tax evasion, price-fixing, defrauding of government or consumers

The ethical code is violated whenever you pick another person’s pocket or steal his purse, and the violation is compounded when you do it legally, that is, when you allow government to do your thieving for you. But only a people with larceny in their souls will write a form of theft into their statutes. Some cynic has suggested that robbery is the first laborsaving device. He’s at least half right. And if people do covet their neighbor’s property they will surely find legal ways to get their hands on it, and conscience will bend around to approve.

Now we know that this world of ours is not run along the lines of something-for- nothing; there is always a quid pro quo. If government gives you something-for-nothing or something-for-less, it is obvious that this same government is forcing some of your fellow citizens to take nothing-for-something, or less-for-something. Your gain is another’s loss; you are living at the expense of someone else. Other people are being victimized for an assumed benefit you enjoy. 
This is unfair; it is immoral.

Let your conduct be without Covertness!

Only a people of  larceny in their souls will write a form of theft into their statutes.