Paul Ryan, spewing some truly fake news at a CNN town hall last night: "I believe it's going to be far easier for us to do tax reform than it was for, say, health care reform."
What's fake is Ryan's use of tax "reform," when what he really means are simple cuts.
Thus I agree and then disagree with Paul Krugman: "The next item on the agenda, tax 'reform,' may not fare much better. I use scare quotes because a true reform, reducing some tax rates but making up for the lost revenue by closing loopholes, was never going to happen. Straight-out tax cuts, which benefit corporations and the wealthy while blowing up the deficit, might still go through, but even that looks doubtful."
With Republicans in control of the House, Senate and White House, Republican tax cuts look "doubtful," Mr. Krugman? It seems to me that tax cuts — the singular object of Republican knowhow — are the only agenda item that look certain.