Charlie Dent: We Need to Slow Down on Tax Reform

‘I think in the House we’ve got to figure out what we want to do’

EXCERPT:

DENT: “I think we need to back up a little bit on tax reform. We first need to pass —“
JACKSON: “That’s not what the White House wants to do. They’re full steam ahead, they’re certainly not backing up.” 
DENT: ”I think in the House we’ve got to figure out what we want to do. I think we need pass reconciliation instructions on tax reform. There are a lot of folks who want to put in hundreds of billions of dollars in changes in mandatory programs. I think that’s a good debate to have, but I would not have that debate while we’re doing tax reform. The reasons I say that is because you’ll give off the impression that we’re going to be cutting taxes for businesses while removing people from food stamps. That’s a lesson I don’t think a lot of people learned from the health care debate when we were removing taxes from the ObamaCare taxes on higher income people and removing people from Medicaid, that’s not a very good optic to put it mildly." 

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