Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171219:16:13:00
>> you know, we tried to see it. if you go back to kind of the early efforts, speaker ryan was clear that he wanted this to be deficit neutral. there was an effort to include a border adjustment element to the tax proposal. that would have brought in enough money to drop the corporate rate by 15 percentage points. that effort didn't work out. and so, you know, what ended up happening was, what happens? we started out with some good ideas and then the legislative process took hold. there's a lot of political pressure to get something done. and we ended up with a bill that has many strong featur...
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