Subject: Congress achieves the impossible with taxes
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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 05:01:50 -0500 (EST)

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}A daily digest of opinions and analysisAn Impossibly Bad Tax BillYou could call it an accomplishment, if you were feeling charitable: Republicans have made their terrible tax plan even worse. The Bloomberg View editorial board excoriates the bill GOP senators hastily passed over the weekend, which would add $1 trillion to the deficit, leave many Americans poorer and sicker, and, amazingly, make the tax code more complicated. Meanwhile, Albert R. Hunt explains why Republicans are throwing their support behind a plan that isn't all that popular with voters.Timing of Flynn's Lies Shows Risks to KushnerTo see where Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is taking his widening Russia investigation — which recently claimed former top Trump adviser Michael Flynn  — just look at the timeline surrounding meetings with Russians. Trump biographer Timothy L. O'Brien reconstructs the sequence of events, and sees reason for the president's son-in-law to be nervous.Must-Reads of 2017: "Grant" Is GreatLooking for some engrossing holiday reading, or a gift for the history buff in your life? As BV columnists share their favorite books of the year (see Megan McArdle and Tyler Cowen's picks here and here), Matthew Winkler recommends Ron Chernow's monumental biography of Ulysses S. Grant.  Scorning Harassers Isn't the New McCarthyismThe national sex-harassment reckoning has raised big questions. A leading thinker on ethics has answers. Stephen L. Carter takes on the most common philosophical concerns about the #MeToo moment.   Ritholtz's ReadsBitcoin: a delusion that could conquer the world (The Atlantic)Never mind the 1 percent. Let’s talk about the 0.01 percent (Chicago Booth Review)If no one owns the moon, can anyone make money up there? (New York Times)(Read Barry Ritholtz's full daily news roundup here.) Bloomberg L.P. ● 731 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022Web ● Facebook ● TwitterFeedback ● Unsubscribe

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