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The point of the crazy stuff in is so the tax cuts are not the crazy part in that context. They make that the easy target and make the Dems feel like they accomplished something and got some compromise when the GOP really got what they wanted in the end.
It's like keeping a few weapons on you hidden badly so they don't find the ones you hid well. Or when you send a movie to the MPAA for rating that you're afraid will get the movie-killing NC-17 rating, so you intentionally seed the movie with even more gratuitous sex and violence so that you have something to cut to compromise with the MPAA and you end up with the movie and the rating you wanted in the first place.
Fun fact: If you've ever seen Sausage Party, that's what the super long vulgar sex scene at the end was supposed to be. It was bait for the MPAA's complaints so they could cut it to get the R rating they wanted. But the MPAA only came back with a single complaint, the Pita Bread's (I believe?) pubic hair on his scrotum. So Seth Rogan said... "Oooookay!" Removed the pubes and released the movie with the rest of the sex scene intact. Cuz when are you ever going to have that chance again?
Yeah the part that won't be removed is the millions of people that not only lose insurance but then are BANNED from using the ACA so they are being made incapable of insuring themselves. Nothing says "We want you to die" like that.