Washington — President Donald Trump’s tax reform plan came under new criticism on Tuesday from two towering Wall Street figures, including billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who called into question a Republican drive to slash the US corporate rate. With the White House and top Republicans in Congress already on the defensive over claims the plan would not cut taxes for many middle-class Americans, Buffett and BlackRock CE Larry Fink suggested in separate interviews that the corporate rate may not have to be cut as deeply as proposed. "We have a lot of businesses ... I don’t think any of them are noncompetitive in the world because of the corporate tax rate," Buffett, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, told CNBC. Fink said a corporate rate as high as 27% could satisfy US businesses’ need for tax relief, while avoiding an increase in the federal deficit. "What is being proposed is a pretty large expansion of our deficits," he told Bloomberg TV. The Republican tax plan unve...
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