Immigration Reform

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Many Republicans say immigration reform needs to be done, but there are a few components of it with which they have a problem. Well, the president has said for quite a long time that when there's differences we shouldn't let that stop us from agreeing to what we agree to and move forward on that. So, the Republicans in the House should simply look at the parts of the Senate bill they want and go from there. If there's more than that they want to do they should write something and see if Democrats will agree with any of it in conference.

If border security is something they want to spend a lot of money on they can always go home and campaign on that for the next elections. Maybe their constituents will be happy to pay the taxes for more and more and more. After all, they don't want to raise taxes and it will obviously have to come from the rich. Somehow I don't suspect that would go over too well with their campaign donors.

The big concession they need to make for their slothfulness is to let Democrats add an amendment to tax reform which will raise rates on somebody to pay down whatever debt the country has (while sunsetting that when the debt is at some sufficiently low level).

It's not really all that hard if you really want to get something done.