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Tax reform could be the GOP's Obamacare

Will the tax reform effort be the GOP's version of Obamacare? I don't know, and neither does anyone else. We have little idea what the final legislation will look like, and even if we did, it's hard to predict its overall effect.

But there are some similarities already, starting with the ugliness of the process.

For years, Republicans mocked Rep. Nancy Pelosi -- and other Democrats -- for dismissing the

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