Somebody here seems to be fibbing.
Even by Washington standards, some very creative accounting is going on. The Republicans use an even sneakier method to exclude from the accounting precisely those parts of their tax plan that most help the wealthy. That means we are on the verge of a summer-long fight over who stands to gain most. Actually, there's hundreds of billions of dimes' worth of difference. While tax brawls are always about money, this one comes unvarnished by the grand economic theories that dressed up such fights in the past.