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Obama Tax Rewrite Challenged by ’Missing Relationships’
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/20…The Obama administration doesn’t have the type of rapport with congressional leaders that would be necessary to complete a U.S. tax-code overhaul, said Michael Mundaca, a former assistant Treasury secretary for tax policy.
“What we’re missing is the relationships between the administration and leaders on the Hill that can move this forward,” Mundaca, who left the Obama administration in May, said today at an international tax conference in New York sponsored by Ernst & Young. “You need very strong cross-aisle and cross-branch cooperation and we haven’t seen that yet.”
- Translation: the Repubs are too dick-headedly stubborn to do anything worthwhilelocustsloth