i'd put it a different way.
ahca was a tax cut for the rich masquerading as health reform.
any tax reform bill will be a tax cut for the rich masquerading as tax reform.
and so on.
they will procure the tax cuts whatever the reform they are enacting.
that is, unless there's a large corporation that wants to pass along its costs to US tax payers. in which case you get the negative externalities model:
the epa executive order that is coming will deliver regulation cuts for the energy companies at the expense of pollution for tax payers.
financial reform will deliver high risk financial freedoms for Wall Street at the expense of consumer protections for tax payers (witness 200
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and so on.
same story.