Lloyd Doggett Sandbagged the Unveiling of Trump's Not-So-Simple Tax "Postcard"
It was supposed to be a publicity slam-dunk for President Trump: an unveiling last week of a new, postcard-sized form touted as a way to simplify Americans' taxes. In theory, it should have been good news before the July 4th holiday and something to pull attention away from those embarrassing family separations down on the border.
Only it didn't happen that way.
A staffer on the House Ways and Means Committee supplied the new form to the Associated Press and other news organizations ahead the big unveiling. And the press, as they do, quickly seized on the fact that to use the new "postcard," taxpayers would need to fill out and attach as many as six accompanying worksheets to claim some popular deductions.
In other words, it sure didn't seem like the streamlined approach the White House promised.
"We did kind of a preemptive strike by it getting out there," said Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, a member of Ways and Means and a vocal critic of the divisive tax overhaul Trump signed into law. "As a result, (the administration) ended up not putting much attention on it."
Read more: https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2018/07/02/lloyd-doggett-sandbagged-the-unveiling-of-trumps-not-so-simple-tax-postcard
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