Friday, December 1, 2017

If you’re against the tax plan, you’re a) in the majority, and b) not a congressional Republican

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/11/30/if-youre-against-the-tax-plan-youre-a-in-the-majority-and-b-not-a-congressional-republican/?utm_term=.3d627701647c
"Most people recognize this as the old trickle-down economics snake-oil sales job they’ve been hearing about since Reagan. You simply can’t find someone with a whit of common sense, and who’s not being paid to believe otherwise, who will buy the story that the best way to help them is to give corporations a $2 trillion tax cut over the next decade. Then there are the facts of the case. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) claimed today that the Senate version of the tax bill will “directly benefit all Americans.” No, it won’t."