Again, GOP leadership has decided to move on to Tax Reform after another failure to repeal/replace Obamacare. No one can deny reform is needed, but the GOP statement was more talking points then factual plan. Is this setting up to be another unkept promise – PB/TK
After Healthcare Fail, GOP Moves On To Tax Reform: Here’s What They Propose – By Kelly Phillips Erb / July 28 2017
After failing to repeal, repeal and replace, or even “skinny repeal” Obamacare, Congress is now taking on tax reform – a job many have declared will be even more difficult than health care reform. To emphasize their commitment to the task, joint leadership from the Senate, House and White House released a statement about “fixing America’s broken tax code.”
The joint statement was delivered by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX). As before, the notes in the statement were more talking points than specific policy details and echoed prior statements about what the current administration feels is necessary to move the economy forward.
The statement stressed a few goals….
Continue to forbes.com article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2017/07/28/after-healthcare-fail-gop-moves-on-to-tax-reform-heres-what-they-propose/#7b5d21a15c3b
