Paul Ryan promises tax reform will get done 'this year'

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So... The question is this: Will they do "big league" tax reform, meaning individual income tax cuts, and simplified brackets, and corporate cuts, and the repatriation of foreign cash? Or, will we all get our hopes up again, only to be slapped with another feckless, Republican-backed, half-measure? This was one of the central promises of not just President Trump's campaign, but the campaigns of virtually every GOP member for the last thirty years. A massive, across-the-board alteration of the current tax scheme (and the agency that enforces it) has been the core platform of the conservative movement since the Goldwater years. At every turn, we've heard the same excuse: "We need both houses of Congress and the presidency to 'really' do it." Well, now they have them. This had better be good...

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