Conservatives Urge Republicans, Move Faster on Tax Reform

Cybercast News Service ^ | February 6, 2017 | 10:34 AM EST | Susan Jones

[Olog-hai]

A coalition of conservative groups is urging Congress to pass “pro-growth” tax reform in 2017 — sooner rather than later.

In a letter dated Feb. 6, addressed to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas), the coalition says significant progress should be made in the first hundred days of the Trump administration:

“Given the importance of this issue, we believe it is imperative that the House of Representatives make significant progress in the first hundred days of the Trump administration toward passing comprehensive, pro-growth tax reform,” said the letter addressed to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas). …

[rockinqsranch]

Wouldn’t they have to get rid of ACA first to eliminate all the taxes, regulations, penalties, etc. before they could possibly do tax reform. Seems to me they need to clean up that mess to make tax reform possible.

[Bigtigermike]

Typical Republicans are so afraid of their own shadow. Trump needs to publicly appeal to voters that voted him in to call their congressional leaders, put the fear of losing their seats on them. No need for do-nothing Congress

[chris37]

Congressional Republicans are utterly pitiful and absolutely worthless.

[nathanbedford]

The Republican controlled Houses of Congress, which Republicans have controlled for several cycles now, have proven quite willing to pass along goodies to the electorate at the price of ballooning national debt but have proven themselves utterly intransigent against taking any goodies away from the electorate.

That is potentially the great struggle between Trump and Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan. If any reform is predicated upon the reform of Obama Care, no reform is likely to occur. Unless, that is, Obama Care is not really "reformed" but simply redesigned to pass even more of the costs on to the national debt. There is no arithmetical solution to Obama Care which does not entail taking goodies away from the electorate-reforms which Donald Trump has already rejected.

There is no inclination anywhere in Washington to attack the debt which requires attacking and actually "reforming" entitlements because those are the runaway programs which are hurtling us toward the fiscal cliff. Donald Trump has already said he would not do it and Congress has proved that it will not do it. The potential struggle between Trump and the Congressional Republicans evidently will not occur.

Trump instead proposes to grow our way out of a fiscal reckoning which must come. He believes that he can get the economy going soon enough and robustly enough to escape the mathematical realities. One can only hope he is right. He certainly understands the fixed disinclination of Congress to cut any entitlements or, indeed, any program. He has elected not to fight it, but to try a different approach.

One can only hope that he succeeds.

[9YearLurker]

No, the tax reform they are talking about doesn’t involve ACA taxes/fees.

Really there is no excuse for the GOP-led House not having legislation for both both ready to roll and rolled out quickly.

Hhow many times did they symbolically repeal Obamacare when they knew it wouldn’t mean anything? How many years have they had to refine alternatives and its undoing?

Likewise, how hard is it to roll back corporate and individual income taxes? The border adjustment tax is an unneeded monstrosity, but they can cut taxes without needing to go there.

Repealing Obamacare is important for the economy, but cutting taxes is at least as important — and needs to be done almost immediately to impact 2018 deeply enough for voters to have really seen Trump’s impact by the midterm election.

[Cobra64]

Yup. Look at this Obama are mess

[Olog-hai]

What we have is an undo-nothing Congress. Because big government RINOs do not want to dismantle the “fourth branch of government” within the executive and restore the Constitutional government.

[ShivaFan]

I agree, let’s move on the tax cuts sooner than later. No matter what, the Dems will fight the cuts so no sense in waiting since it is going to be America verse the Dems/MSM no matter what so let’s get this fight rollubg early. Just the HOPE that tax cuts are coming will boost the S&P even more which even if just hope there is the psyops part of every battle, every war.

[Olog-hai]

Too many in the GOP think like Arthur Larson.

“[I]f a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people, and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.”

That quote from A Republican Looks at His Party appears in The Conscience of a Conservative as a prime example of the thinking of RINOs, i.e. as identical as the big-government Democrats. In this context, TCOAC points out that the rest of Larson’s book is devoid of any mention of the Constitution and/or limited government, and accuses ARLAHP of “propound(ing) the first principle of totalitarianism”, which is making the central government the arbiter and the executor of all things within society.

This, then, is what Trump is up against. If he is aware of it, then he already has plans and means to combat it or to make its power of null effect.

[Ann Archy]

Slow-footed, slow-witted Republicans are disgusting!! The Democrats would have already pushed thru whatever they wanted to do!

MOVE FASTER!! WORK HARDER!!!

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

If they haven’t done so yet, first they need to pass a bill that directs OMB (and whoever else) to dynamically score tax changes. Then all tax proposals will reflect the growth of wealth they cause, or prevent.

Otherwise, libs will just hit them over the head with the fake “tax cuts make the government lose money” argument. Not that that’s a bad thing...

[OKSooner]

Rotsa ruck with this bunch.

Republicans, doing all they can to go along with Democrats and/or to now preserve the status quo.

"Preservation of capital", don't you know... /s