If there’s one thing Republicans want to do as much as they want to strip tens of millions of people of their health care, it’s cut taxes on the very wealthy and pay for it by shredding the social safety net and letting our infrastructure collapse. But the healthcare repeal failure has far-right dark money groups worried that congressional Republicans and the White House won’t be able to get their act together to make “tax reform”—as they call their giveaway to the one percent—happen, so an outside group called American Action Network is spending big to push the far right’s message:
The organization expects to spend as much as $20 million on a pro-tax reform effort dubbed the "Middle Class Growth Initiative," AAN told McClatchy. The program will promote tax cuts for "working families and small businesses," as well as a reformed tax code "that will be simpler, fairer and pro-growth," according to the organization.
As part of the effort, AAN is pledging to spend $5 million in August alone, and is kicking off the initiative with a $1 million member-specific radio ad buy slated to run in 34 congressional districts, from Rep. Carlos Curbelo's Miami-area district to Rep. Mark Meadows' North Carolina seat to Rep. David Valadao's in California's Central Valley.
Yeah, right. Tax cuts for working families and small businesses, my ass. More like make America Kansas.
Republican millionaires and billionaires give big money to groups like American Action Network so groups like AAN can campaign for their donors to get big tax breaks at the expense of working people. It’s the cycle of life, Republican-style.