First some positive things: 1. aligning corporate taxes (C corps) more closely with individual taxes (paid by S corps) is a positive step (and one that Obama wanted as well). A 20% rate actually overshoots that target and creates the opposite problem though.
4. Saved this for last (I have to go back to work), it's just a very different bill, from a policy perspective, than what they sold and campaigned on. This in itself is not sufficient to oppose the bill, but it does mean we haven't heard an election campaign ...
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for the policies in this bill. As far as anyone can tell, the policies have no good explanation other than "we'll take what we can get", but there are a number of other casualties that might make the bill worse than nothing at all.
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I think they owed it to us to sell the bill on its merits, not on the merits of an alternative bill that is 180° different (fewer brackets, radically fewer deductions, broadening the base) that they didn't propose at all.
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In a big sense, it's very hard to argue against the bill because most of the arguments for it are not actually arguments for the actual things the bill is doing. And saying that out loud doesn't make for a very polite debate. But it has to be said.
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