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Old 11-02-2017, 03:42 PM   #2660
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Re: "[There'll be some leaking in the press]/That will disclose/What everybody knows.

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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy View Post
The "throw out something crazy and compromise down to the merely aggressive" strategy might work when you go through regular order and the only people paying attention to the first draft sleep within an hour of the white house, but when you need public support for a bill you're trying to pass on a tight timeline without committee process or input, it's not really a good strategy. You quickly kill the credibility that might have gotten your bill through.

You'd think they might have figured that out by now, given that they've been doing it all year.

From what I'm seeing right now, I'd say they're chances of getting a tax bill this year are collapsing.
Good point. He’s pressed to get this done before year’s end, no?

Good. This bill is stupid. We don’t need tax “simplification.” Taxes aren’t that fucking complicated.

This thing looks like a giant, petulant “fuck the coasts” project coupled with a blowjob to billionaires.
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