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Comment by dinoleif

Oh. The answer here is actually straightforward.

It's because the tax bill needed to pass through reconciliation (which has special rules related to the deficit). Generating artificial savings on paper allowed the GOP to increase the size of the tax cut on paper.

parent dinoleif 9 years ago

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