Selling the public on its toxic tax-cut plan won’t be as easy as the GOP paints it.
It has to do with the quirks of a relatively obscure law called the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, a.k.a. "PAYGO."
There’s no shortage of actual life-or-death policy issues, ones with real deadlines.
The GOP tax proposal is stunningly complex on the corporate side, meaning lawyers and accountants would make out like bandits.
A Treasury Department one-page document contains no actual analysis or data.
The country wants you to think its attempt to dislodge the U.S. from its unipolar power perch is a “misunderstanding.”
Republicans know how unpopular their tax bill is, and they just don’t care.
The tax bill isn’t even about helping the rich anymore. It’s about hurting the poor.
"I voted against the tax cuts because of the disproportionate amount that went to the wealthiest Americans," John McCain (R-Ariz.) said about the George W. Bush tax cuts in 2004.
The GOP is desperate for a win, and it doesn’t want fact-checking to get in the way.
