Over at Bloomberg, Ramesh Ponnuru, sometime truth-teller on the Republican1 side of the aisle, comes up a little short with his take on the Republican tax “reform” package, headed “Tax Reform’s Losers Can Afford the Loss”. Ponnuru praises the bill because it “caps the tax deduction for mortgage interest at a loan value of $500,000,…
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Bloomberg scribes Kevin Cirilli, Sahil Kapur, Anna Edgerton, Erik Wasson, Ben Brody, Shannon Pettypiece, and Colleen Murphy: so not the sharpest knives in the drawer
Perhaps I shouldn’t be making this a case of collective responsibility, but all of these people have their names on an article over at Bloomberg, “Trump Rethinks State-Local Tax Issue Over Middle-Class Concerns”. Guys (and gals): you have to think something before you rethink it. Okay, maybe they didn’t write that headline, but they did…
The Coming Republican Crack Up? Fumin’ Donors and Fumin’ Members!
There seems to be an amusing level of, you know, stress breaking out among both Republican money bags and Republican Congress folk as Republican “ideas” collide with, you know, reality. Over at Politico, Alex Isenstadt and Gabriel Debenedetti report that “Angry GOP donors close their wallets”, while the Washington Examiner’s David M. Drucker tells us…