John Cornyn: “beginning today, the Senate Budget Committee will take the next step in our effort to enact pro-growth tax reform, this…”

“beginning today, the Senate Budget Committee will take the next step in our effort to enact pro-growth tax reform, this time by marking up a budget resolution. The committee's work follows the release last week of our unified framework--the tax blueprint on how to create jobs and how to put more money back in the pockets of the hard-working Americans who earn it. Even though the framework is just 1 week old, there are some who are imagining the worst-case scenario. Rumors are spreading like wildfire. Last week, the Tax Policy Center fanned the flames when it published a report analyzing the plan--which, I want to emphasize, hasn't been written yet. Let me say that again. The Tax Policy Center published a report criticizing a plan which hasn't been written yet. This alleged or so-called nonpartisan think tank has looked into its crystal ball and now claims to be able to see the future, and it said the future doesn't look very good. The tax plan, it says, will be a resounding flop. Well, give me a break. I, for one, am sick and tired of this sort of pessimism parading as expertise--people talking about things they know nothing about and claiming to be the experts. It is pretty common here, in Washington, DC, you might have noticed. It is not helpful to assume the worst prematurely and to condemn this important exercise before we are even starting, and it is irresponsible to masquerade biased, partisan analysis as somehow objective.…”