Some of us are old enough to remember 1986.  It was the year that President Reagan passed a tax reform plan.  Someday, someone will look back to 2017 as the year that President Trump passed his tax reform. What's the difference between 1986 and 2017?  The answer is Democrats. In 1986, Democrats were happy to support it, as we see in this post from Rachel del Guidice: More than 30 Senate Democrats voted for President Ronald Reagan's Tax Reform Act of 1986 – including one still in office today – and conservatives say Democrats today have no reason to vote against a similar tax reform package now before Congress.  "If I hear any more Democrats talking about 'the bottom rate is going up,' I'll remind them they might want to contact [Joe Biden, Al Gore, and John Kerry], because they voted with President [Ronald] Reagan to lower that 11 percent rate to zero, just as we are lowering the 10 percent rate to zero...(Read Full Post)