You can add tax cuts to the GOP's issue amnesia from the 2012 election,
reports Nicholas Riccardi:
Republicans came into this presidential campaign with painful memories of how, in the last one, Democrats blasted Mitt Romney’s tax plan as a giveaway to the rich.
Yet Donald Trump’s tax plan adds to the number of major GOP presidential candidates who propose to cut all taxes — but especially those for the wealthy — as deeply, or deeper, than Romney proposed.
The lesson Republicans seem to have drawn is to simply stop worrying about balancing the budget. The plans would blow open deficits over the next decade that economists estimate ranging from $3.6 trillion to $12 trillion.
Remember how Republicans used to obsess about keeping everything "revenue-neutral"? Well, if a GOP president cuts taxes across the board and specifically for the rich, guess who's the ultimate loser? The not rich. Why? Because cutting all those taxes will create a giant-sized crater in the deficit that can only be plugged by cutting spending and that inevitably means cutting the safety net for those who most need the help.
It's a race to the bottom and, you guessed it, Donald Trump is winning—edging out both Jeb! Bush and Marco Rubio for floating the most irresponsible tax plan of all.
It's shameless really. Republicans have simply stopped trying to make any sense at all. As Carly Fiorina so appropriately noted: "Politics is a fact-free zone." All of these tax plans amount to a giveaway that's anything but free. And America's disadvantaged, its working poor, and its middle class will bear the true burden of the cost.