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earth2marslast Saturday at 1:43 AM2 repliesview on HN

This. TCJA removed it and OBBBA restored it. What am I missing here


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rhinoceraptorlast Saturday at 1:54 AM

Classic 45-47 maneuver, first create a problem. Then solve it, often poorly and incompletely. Finally, claim victory, another 300 IQ 5D chess move in the books.

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lesuoraclast Saturday at 1:47 AM

It lets you claim BBB doesn't increase the budget by as much as it'll ultimately do.

By having a bunch of random provision in BBB that generate revenue it lowers it's impact on the defect and then you can repeal them later on after passing BBB.