^this. koch bros cucked him so hard with their announcement of a special election fund for those who vote "no", after trump called all these GOP clowns into a special meeting to try and coerce/strongarm them through intimidation

he is an abject failure of a dealmaker btw, this should be the headline on repeat for the rest of his time in

Raheem, if you are genuinely on the autism spectrum and are trying to learn I would advise you to read more main stream news (e.g. NOT Fox) and speak less about subjects that you admit you know very little about.

On the other hand, if you are a troll, you should just leave, especially since your claim that you all of sudden woke up from brainwashing on a specific day is pretty hard to believe.

I am reading Msm everq since monday. Thats the day i woke up. Makes perfect sense

Confirming this. Also getting an unfrozen caveman woke drumpf supporter vibe.

DVaut is exactly correct, especially about the bolded part. In the immediate period after the election, there was a lot of overreaction from Democrats about what Trump's victory meant for the future of the Democratic party. The Democratic party doesn't need to radically alter its principles. It just needs to emphasize the right things.

On a less sanguine note, there were a lot of beltway GOP types who concluded in the wake of two Obama victories that the GOP needed to be more welcoming to Latino voters to be competitive at the national level. Sadly, Trump proved that this response was also an overreaction.

I also think it would be an overreaction to assume that Trump will be unable to implement any meaningful part of his agenda just because he couldn't get a healthcare bill passed.

Passing healthcare bills in the US is damn difficult, although it should have been much easier for a party that had control of both houses of Congress. The AHCA is complicated and full of compromises in large part because of how difficult it is to pass health care legislation.

All that said, this was a wildly incompetent attempt to pass a healthcare bill.

Lol Wut?

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...failure-236485

This seems to say that GOP tax reform is going to be a lot less robust than before because they couldn't save the 1T through Obamacare repeal. And it will just be more cuts than reform.


This ontop of the appropriations bills and debt ceiling issues. And why would Freedom Caucus care about trumps threats now? They just cucked him.

Does anyone have an opinion on the border adjusted tax? I know obviously importers (retail) are against it and exporters (GE, Boeing) are for it.

Tax reform is an interesting thing to handicap. The GOP actually has a very deep bench of good tax policies (including lots of revenue raisers) from the Camp days. On the other hand, the Brady blueprint is full of a lot of moonshot type ideas that are either expensive (repeal AMT) or controversial (expensing of investments plus non deductible interest) or super controversial (border adjustment). In addition healthcare demonstrates the absolute bankruptcy of congressional and executive leadership of the legislative process. It will be interesting to see what happens.

It's nuts and will never pass. Tariffs create artificial inefficiencies in the markets and are almost always a net negative for everyone. If we do a border adjustment tax other countries will retaliate with their own. Even our exporters will suffer because of that. If you want a good idea on what tariffs can do, google the "Smoot-Hawley" tariff.

Edit: Border adjustment tax will have an even higher hurdle than AHCA, the libertarian wing of the GOP will revolt like they did with AHCA (Koch's, etc.), but the big business wing will revolt as well. It's possible a few populist democrats come along for the ride (people in the Sanders camp), but its also just as likely that democrats block it en masse to watch the republicans flounder.

Border adjustment is basically DOA. Keep in mind that you don't just need to have majority buy-in to an idea like this in the GOP side, you need to have near unanimity, because there won't be any Democratic votes for tax reform. Retailers can definitely get enough no votes to sink a bill with BA in it.

HOWEVER, BA scores something like $800 billion in revenue, so its demise will blow a gigantic hole in revenue neutrality. This goes back to the bankruptcy of the leadership. Competent leadership would not have allowed tax reform plans to get drawn up on the basis of $800 billion of revenue that is highly unlikely to be there. One likely failure mode is elimination of BA -> gruesome CBO score for the rump tax reform plan -> bitter infighting as different GOP try to keep their pet ideas in a downsized plan -> sad Paul Ryan.

This is not quite right though. The Econ 101 analysis is that the dollar just goes up by 20% and there's no effect on trade. Other countries border adjust their VATs and are allowed to do so by WTO. The concern that retailers have is that the adjustment in currency markets won't be perfect and they'll be left facing a bigger tax bill. (Also in that case BA would have tariff-like effects.)

What if the GOP throws the Dems a bone to get them to come to the table? Say take some of the tax cuts off the top 2-3% and put them on middle class (even tax credits for children like Rubio wanted or a payroll tax cut for the poor which I believe Rand Paul wanted)

If they just come out with the typical cookie-cutter 30-35% of the cuts go to 2% of the people I just feel like that isn't going to have much support in this new information age. Especially after a big criticism of the ACHA was that it was just a tax cut for the rich.

It started in 2010 but many of the provisions were delayed to take effect in 2014.

They can't take tax cuts away from the rich, that's the whole ballgame for them.

Let's see the A team in action

https://www.axios.com/inside-the-tru...329417172.html

Yeah, I got the #1 most important factor here as the constituents calling "moderate" (lol) Republicans and forcing them to reject an outright repeal.

Try putting the tweet number between the [ tweet ]
[ /tweet ] tags. make your own tags or push the twitter button to create the tags. There needs to be no spaces in the tags. Try it.

Appropriate visual of Trump's presidency so far:

Any Democrat voting for Trump tax reform is taking a real risk of being assassinated by a WarrenBro.

Yo Dom,

Just quote someone who does it right. It's magic!

Yeah Democrats are dumb and terrible but you gotta be really dumb and really terrible to try to sell "I voted to repeal capital gains tax to work across the aisle with President Muslim Ban, I'm reasonable and bipartisan"

Dow is crashing. They think the tax cuts are not gonna happen.

Trump is tweeting Obamacare will "explode".

Big stuff going on.