Working across the aisle on housing
In 1986, President Ronald Reagan, a Republican, and Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill, a Democrat, did something impossible by today’s partisan political standards: They worked together to pass the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which simplified the federal tax code and broadened the tax base by eliminating personal deductions and tax shelters.
When the act was first drafted, experts from both sides of the aisle recognized that an unintended consequence of the legislation was the disincentiv
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