"Of all the follies of 2017, the most tawdry may be the GOP's headlong rush to pass a tax bill that even its proponents don't understand"
"Political desperation is the mother of this legislation. Despite Republican control of both houses of Congress, the Trump administration has failed in its first year to enact legislation that deals with major problems, such as health care and immigration."
"The tax bill is a Rubik's Cube of potential problems, but the difficulties begin with the fact that it has been pushed through Congress in two months without hearings or careful analysis. The provisions were crafted in secret and passed on party-line votes, without a chance for assessment or analysis."
"This haste guarantees confusion later. Without a clear legislative history, tax lawyers at the Internal Revenue Service won't have adequate guidance when they try to write regulations implementing the law. Courts won't have a record of congressional intent, other than press conferences, tweets and hurried floor and committee statements."
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...te_135764.html
For the Democrats, come 2018 and 2020, it is going to be the gift that isn't going to stop giving
"The GOP Tax Cuts Are Even More Unpopular Than Past Tax Hikes"
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...ast-tax-hikes/
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/36...ax-reform-bill
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump...ll-cbs-2017-12
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wh...rticle/2643202
Even Kellyanne Conway won't be able to come up with a big enough "alternative fact" to get them out of this one
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