SB 20-26: Buffett Rule Act of 2019 (Final Vote)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

One quick note, while it is good have quality written bills, I would point out, that it makes it difficult to figure out what is being changed and how when it contains multiple references to texts that are not present in the bill itself.

I do worry that this causes a barrier to entry at worst and at best fuels the cycle of passive, "arm's length legislating".


Of course this is not the first time this kind of text has been used so I am not trying to dig at the sponsors here, but I do think it is appropriate at some point to discuss this format and the impact that it has.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I realize this question is a little late, but what is the difference between this and the "alternative minimum tax"? Is this suppose to replace that or incorporate that in some way?



Also, as I pointed out earlier the text as written would tend to obscure the changes being made since the text it amends is actual US Code, not stated in the bill itself and finally noted link in the bill either though I imagined said linked material would be enormous. Pyro's "advocacy" also leaned more heavily towards pressing for action as opposed to explaining the contents.

But that brings me to this post by YE back in July:

This is taken from RL so there may be more compatibility issues than I’d like and may need to be sorted out.   

Has this bill been checked for this, I didn't see it being so on the House side, but I might have missed it?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What about the possible compatibility issues YE raised the specter of? This is something we can review ourselves, I would imagine without needing GM input, as opposed to say cost estimates.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What's going on with this?

Holiday checking out, there has been a lack of substantive responses to my questions in many bills including the abortion one, the pe err circumcision one and No Moderator or Accidental Deletion...


The only concern I have left is the issues YE raised about in game conflicts with a directly derived RL bill. 

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

NAY

I am in favor of replacing the alternative minimum tax which this is said to do, but I just don't feel I am comfortable knowing all of what this bill does when it virtually every clause contains references to other passages not present in the text, nor linked to some offsite source making it very difficult to ascertain what is happening when the object or subject of the sentence is a referenced part of something else, concerns that I raised earlier in the debate.