{"id":135516,"date":"2017-12-04T18:30:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T01:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135516"},"modified":"2017-12-04T23:35:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:35:34","slug":"oops-gop-tax-bill-also-screwed-major-gop-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/04\/oops-gop-tax-bill-also-screwed-major-gop-supporters.html","title":{"rendered":"Oops — the GOP tax bill also screwed over some major GOP supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"

In their unseemly rush to get the Senate Tax Bill passed — rush so great that the final 400-odd page version was handed out to Senators only a few hours before the vote, including hand-written marginal notes as part of the law<\/i> — they managed to screw up their own repeal\/reduction of the Alternate Minimum Tax for corporations.<\/p>\n

It will probably get “fixed” in reconciliation with the House, but it’s a sign of the dangers in throwing everything and the kitchen sink into complex legislation at the very last second, skipping any hearings or review, and hoping all will turn out okay.<\/p>\n


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\nSenate Republicans Accidentally Killed Some of Their Donors\u2019 Favorite Tax Breaks<\/a><\/span>
\nPassing a tax bill that you wrote over lunch \u2014 and never actually read \u2014 appears to have some downsides.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In their unseemly rush to get the Senate Tax Bill passed — rush so great that the final 400-odd page version was handed out to Senators only a few hours before the vote, including hand-written marginal notes as part of the law — they managed to screw up their own repeal\/reduction of the Alternate Minimum … Continue reading “Oops — the GOP tax bill also screwed over some major GOP supporters”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,374,358,376],"tags":[125,1176],"class_list":["post-135516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-money-politics","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending","tag-gop","tag-taxreform"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mitch-McConnell.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135488,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/03\/remarkable-list-economists-supported-gop-tax-bill.html","url_meta":{"origin":135516,"position":0},"title":"The remarkable list of “economists” who supported the GOP tax bill","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 3-Dec-17 6:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Senate GOP and President Trump touted loudly a list of 137 economists who supported the Senate tax bill as being a really, awfully, terribly keen idea. 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