Ever since the healthcare debacle saying this might not be such a sure thing. Theres been differences. What happened to healthcare could very well happen to tax cuts. Heres why. Theyre not all in agreement on this stuff. Even with the runup in the dow since the election, the fact of the matter is when it comes to tax cuts, theyre already bickering over whether they should be paid for, up front, whether certain deductions will fly and others will not. Then theres the issue of whether theres a border tax or not. Something that retailers hate a lot of big fortune 500 companies love. This back and forth is very similar to the back and forth over the healthcare issue. Its something that goes again and again back to something the treasury secretary raised with me about what would be sacred and what wouldnt be about paying for the tax cuts. Remember this . Let me clarify, were not taking away the charitable deduction and leaving the mortgage Interest Deduction as is. We think those are both v
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their democrat colleagues are angry over last fall s election. while the president can find common ground with democrats, it will tend to be on narrow issues and will have to have the mindset that he will divorce his activities with them on those issues from the rest of his relationship with continue. it s analogous to 2001. democrats were really angry with bush. bush focused on finding some democrats, george millner the house, ted kennedy in the senate who agreed on federal monies that went to education. the result was no child left behind. those two guys were against the president on everything else including tax cuts, judges. bush divorced his relationship with them on that issue from everything else. president trump will need to do the same thing. find the area where he can work with some democrats on some things, but recognize that s not going to bring down their opposition to him on a whole host of fronts.