The New Tax Plan Is Complicated, Unfair and Unaffordable

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : And for millions of families, those tax savings would be dwarfed by the cost of losing their Medicaid as a result of the cuts in the bill.
55% : The latest effort, which I can think of only as tax deform, is a tremendously expensive effort to make the tax code less efficient, less fair and more complicated.
52% : Of all the changes that he requested in the name of making the tax code more fair, the only one that made it into the bill was a reduction in tax breaks for sports owners, for a saving of about $100 million per year -- a pittance compared with the tens of billions a year in new and expanded tax breaks for business owners, wealthy estates and high-income households.
50% : The Constitution assigns the House of Representatives the role of originating tax changes.
48% : The House bill is estimated by Congress's nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation to lower tax revenue by $3.8 trillion over 10 years, but even that eye-popping figure understates its likely cost.
44% : Based on estimates by the Joint Committee on Taxation, in 2027 they would pay a staggering $96 billion less in taxes.
39% : There was much to dislike in the package of large and regressive tax cuts advanced by President Trump in his first term, but I'll give it this:

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