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Republicans Sought to Undercut an Unfavorable Analysis of the Tax Plan

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Republicans Sought to Undercut an Unfavorable Analysis of the Tax Plan - The New York Times


Lengthy but well written article by the NYT explains how/why the GOP attacked Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the official scorekeeper of Congress that analyzes proposed bills and reports on how such proposed bills affect national economics and federal revenue's. The GOP also attacked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Both nonpartisan research arms of Congress stated in their scoring of the GOP "tax-reform" measures that the proposed legislation does not pay for itself, but rather balloons the deficit.
 
Republicans Sought to Undercut an Unfavorable Analysis of the Tax Plan - The New York Times


Lengthy but well written article by the NYT explains how/why the GOP attacked Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the official scorekeeper of Congress that analyzes proposed bills and reports on how such proposed bills affect national economics and federal revenue's. The GOP also attacked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Both nonpartisan research arms of Congress stated in their scoring of the GOP "tax-reform" measures that the proposed legislation does not pay for itself, but rather balloons the deficit.

I haven’t read the tax bill and everything you read is more a confession to partisanship than anything otherwise believable.
 
I haven’t read the tax bill and everything you read is more a confession to partisanship than anything otherwise believable.

We've read what the house put out and what the senate put out. Somewhere there is a compromise between the senate and house, but in both cases neither really read the bills they approved. And both are unpopular.
 
We've read what the house put out and what the senate put out. Somewhere there is a compromise between the senate and house, but in both cases neither really read the bills they approved. And both are unpopular.

I suspect that only few read it in full. Quite a few would know the content as it developed and so only had to read or be briefed on the last alterations. That does not mean that it is a good law. It just means that more of the Senators probably knew adequately what they were voting for than often thought.
 
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