You know there’s a problem when there is bipartisan agreement in Washington, DC. Case in point, Senators have agreed to keep details of the tax reform debate secret. Apparently, this is so a Senator can submit all sorts of unpopular proposals without taking heat from voters. Lovely.

Nobody questions the necessity of keeping America’s most vital national security secrets behind closed doors, whether it be the launch protocol for firing the country’s nuclear weapons, the Pentagon’s strategy for responding to surprise attacks by China or Russia, or tax reform proposals being submitted to the Senate Finance Committee.

Whoa. Wait a minute. What was that last item? Believe it or not, the finance panel’s chairman, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and ranking minority member, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, recently assured their senatorial colleagues that nobody will know for 50 years who proposed what concerning which tax credits and deductions should be kept and which should be killed.

It is hard to imagine a better illustration of business-as-usual by Washington’s professional politicians than having two grizzled Senate veterans promising to protect the identities of fellow senators protecting special interests as the tax-writing committees in Congress make decisions on things like home mortgage deductions and corporate tax breaks worth trillions of dollars. As Taxpayers for Common Sense recently observed, “we hear it all the time from policymakers. Trust us to do a better job for the taxpayer if we do it behind closed doors — less histrionics, less playing to the camera, less political posturing, and less need to appeal to constituents and special interests.”

There is something else the American people get less of when politicians make decisions in secret, and that’s accountability. When nobody knows who is responsible for misguided policies to damage the economy and disrupt people’s daily lives, the politicians who vote for bad laws and programs are protected from the consequences of their decisions. (Read More)

Anything to keep the special interests happy and the money flowing into their campaign accounts.

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