PhotoBack when congressional Republicans were rolling out one unpopular health care bill after another, it was a challenge to come up with constructive advice on how to fix their efforts. No plan could satisfy all three requirements; as they say in Susan Collins’s Maine, you can’t get there from here. With the tax reform that the House and the Senate are now considering, though, the task of advice-giving is easier. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThis would not be a bad way to design a right-of-center tax bill. There’s nothing wrong with going after the other party’s constituencies if those constituencies enjoy unearned privileges, which professionals in blue states (this columnist included) emphatically do.

Source: New York Times November 15, 2017 10:41 UTC