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House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) on Sept. 27 said congressional Republicans want to revise the tax code to make it “pro-growth and pro-family.” (Reuters)

House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) statement today about the tax plan would be hysterically funny if we weren’t talking about the future of the United States’ economy and politics. With his best game face, he proclaimed, “We made sure we’re on the same page … [and] we made sure we did the hard lifting and the tough work ahead of rollout.”

The latter is false, and the former is ridiculous (if we presume he means being on the same page with the White House).

The Republicans avoided all the hard lifting and tough work because they have no way of packaging, selling and passing a bill that benefits the rich, leaves a gaping revenue hole and may actually raise taxes — even Gary Cohn admitted as such — for some middle-class people. They therefore don’t seem to have figured out where the income cutoffs for the brackets go, which deductions to eliminate, whether to put in another higher bracket, how to pay for this or really any other hard issue. They either don’t know how or don’t think the public will buy it.

I love this description, "pro-growth & pro-family". This sounds so stupid that we all can laugh at it.

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