Saturday, March 3, 2018

'The Swamp' scored big time as businesses jockeyed to cash in on Trump's tax giveaway

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/12/1740729/--The-Swamp-scored-big-time-as-businesses-jockeyed-to-cash-in-on-Trump-s-tax-giveaway
"The nonprofit group Public Citizen found that upward of 5,000 lobbyists swarmed the Capitol to make sure their clients profited from the GOP’s tax rewrite. Unfortunately, any American taxpayer who isn’t a millionaire or billionaire didn't have much leverage as Republicans picked the winners and losers of their tax overhaul. So most American taxpayers came out losers in that negotiation. But not corporate America or the top 1 percent—they did just peachy."