While House Republicans have shown no compunction about passing budget-busting tax bills, it’s not clear there’s a majority in the Senate for them; at least two Senate Republicans have said they won’t vote for another tax bill that raises the deficit. But actually changing the tax code doesn’t seem to be the real point of the House’s effort. The sudden emergence of the three-part proposal and the rush to pass it suggest that the goal of the exercise is to gin up an issue for the fall campaign.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 02, 2018 11:03 UTC