Here is a link to an article today in the “Washington Post” about the GOP tax plan:
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The title of the article is “As tax plan gained steam, GOP lost focus on the middle class.”
I have to ask the people who wrote the article and/or title where they have been for the past 40 years.
The writers actually say this:
”The bill was supposed to deliver benefits predominantly to average working families, not corporations, with a 35 percent tax cut Trump proposed on the campaign trail as part of the “Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act.””
What?!
Why would you believe anything any Republican has to say about taxes? The whole idea of the GOP for the past 40 years has been tax cuts for the rich uber alles. Any talk of “growth” or any other thing is just a talking point. There is more than enough empirical evidence that upper income tax cuts or corporate tax cuts do not have a strong correlation (or any real correlation) with economic growth.
The talk of the “middle class” is just that talk. What has been done in the past, (think Bush tax cuts) is to cut taxes dramatically at the top and throw in a few pennies for the middle class. This doesn’t do that at all. This actually screws the middle class and targets people living in certain states to pay for corporate tax cuts.
Does anyone believe this was an accident, that these pure minded Ayn Randian/Grover Norquist water carriers and bagmen for the ultra rich really wanted to cut taxes for the middle class, but something just went wrong? Why even report it that way?
Why do writers and the mainstream press keep taking these sociopaths at their word? Wouldn’t we be much better off with something like the BBC that would call “bollocks” on this stuff?