Editorial: Tax reform, deficit reduction and a functional IRS all go hand in hand

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Trump has nominated some smart people for his economic team, including Scott Bessent for Treasury secretary, and we're hopeful that grown-up thinking will prevail.
53% : Among other initiatives, it has helped to disrupt the pipeline of the deadly drug fentanyl from overseas, which Trump rightly has declared a top priority.
51% : We send our best wishes to the efforts of the much-ballyhooed Department of Government Efficiency, to be run by tech bosses Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
43% : Failure to extend the measures would mean increases for most taxpayers in 2026 and they would have no one to blame but Trump & Co. During his campaign, the president-elect teased additional new giveaways, vowing, for instance, to eliminate taxes on tips, which doesn't make much sense, as well as Social Security income.
33% : Consider Billy Long, a former GOP congressman from Missouri, who Trump has proposed to head the Internal Revenue Service.

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