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Originally Posted by kingfin66
Of course the ACA was a much larger document. The big difference in my mind is that Obama stepped back from trying to push it through in a similar manner and took the bill to the people. There was a lot of time between the amendment phase and the vote. Not a few hours.
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The ACA was a lot longer document (2700 pages), but didn't give a lot of information about what ObamaCare really was. It delegated the determination of much of the actual rules and regulations to the administration, particularly the Secy. of HHS. Reading the bill was both impossible and pointless. And many of the details that actually were in the bills were unilaterally changed later by the administration.
GOP handling of this tax bill is equally objectionable, and like the ACA, pure politics. Nobody could read and understand the ACA bill before it was passed, and the same is true of this tax bill. Not that it matters a lot anyway. The Senate bill still has to go through reconciliation with the House bill, and no one knows what it will look like after that. But I'll bet big bucks that no one gets time to read and understand the final bill before it comes up for a vote.
