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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, November 30th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker.

Yesterday, Senate Republicans voted to bring their tax bill to the floor.

In August, President Trump cited Ronald Reagan as an inspiration for the plan.

In an address to the nation in 1985, President Reagan made an inspiration for the plan. In an address to the nation in 1985,

President Reagan made the case for the second major tax overhaul of his administration.

Over the course of this century, our tax system has been modified dozens of times and in hundreds of ways.

Yet most of those changes didn't improve the system. They made it more like

Washington itself. Complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed

for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisors.

He went on to say,

A great national debate now begins.

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