david: we had a number of conversations with folks who are tax experts on the show to talk about the yulialready of this moment -- peculiarity of this moment. you highlight this in your recent report as well. revenues maybe less than what the treasury department expects because of that uncertainty. mentre seeing postpone of capital gains by some americans. a lot of people anticipated by this time that the trump administration and congress would have some real differen definite tax bill thatt past, but a lot further along the now. a lot of people said let's hold off and see what happens after tax reform. most people expected it to happen before the end of the year. now it's clearly in my view not going to be finished by the end of the year. happy talk notwithstanding. we want to encourage people to think things are upbeat, but the truth is they have about 17 working days when they come back from this august recess. and they have a budget resolution. if you don't have that, you can't get filibuster approved kind of tax bill. they have to deal with all the spending bills for the next year. th