Even if you don't buy that, there is nothing that says when the current rates expire, rates return to the pre-reform levels. That's all bullshit, just like rosy unproveable projections of economic growth.

Its smoke and mirrors designed to allow the numbers to add up to a straight line party vote, simple majority. All the effort is going into making that happen so they can hand Trump a bill by Xmas.

The effort should be about getting the best possible tax bill, not the quickest, which is counterproductive to the goal of getting the "best".