It also very accurately laid out the politics, you know, the difficulty he has in his caucus, the difficulty we have. So, you know, we have to, we have to shift paradigms here. From my standpoint, Tax reform should be handled separately. We should scrap the tax code, start over, do a paradigm shift in terms of tax reform. but handily, each one of these problems is enormous and handle them separately. Social Security, Medicare, other mandatory spending, tax reform. If you start talking about a grand bargain, I just don't think that's possible. (01:18–01:25)
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Asserts that tax reform should be separate from other issues and suggests starting over with a new tax code.
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