Finally, Some Tax-Cut Action

Republicans in Congress — some of them, anyway — are finally getting the ball rolling on tax cuts. The rest of the party had better join together to get it done, or they’ll all pay next November.

The first move looks pretty obscure: The Senate Budget Committee agreed to allow for tax cuts of up to $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years. That allows Congress to pass “temporary” cuts that officially score as costing Uncle Sam that much in revenue.

This means the GOP still faces internal debates about which cuts will boost the economy enough to make it worth the addition to the debt. But at least it leaves room for changes that can make a difference — which an obsession with “revenue neutrality” would make near-impossible.

And it also pushes the party to focus on what it can do now, rather than on some ideal remake of the entire tax code. That task is too large, too complex and too vulnerable to special-interest fury to begin this late in the game.

Republicans — and America — need tax cuts that can goose the economy enough to spark major job creation. Democrats are guaranteed to denounce anything that passes that test as a giveaway to the rich.

The rest of the GOP will need to follow President Trump, who’s already been explaining how business-tax cuts, in particular, actually pay off for working people.

Because if Republicans can’t manage to unite and deliver “jobs, jobs, jobs,” their voters won’t bother turning out in 2018.