Last-minute tax break for real estate investors "air dropped" on Capitol Hill

• "Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee ... wrote [yesterday] to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch seeking an explanation for how the provision came to be included in the final bill after being asked about it by a reporter."
• Corker: "The suggestion was that it was airdropped into the conference without prior consideration by either the House or the Senate."

N.Y. Times Quote of the Day: Jeff Lajqi, manager of a Jewish deli in Livingston, N.J., where residents worry about the economic shock from Republican plan to limit how much property tax they can deduct on federal returns: "If they're raising the taxes, you know what's going to happen: Everyone's going to raise prices. Raise my taxes, I raise your challah."