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From Daily Kos: Team Trump is mulling another massive tax cut for the rich—while bypassing Congress entirely

Berry Craig
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It has been 18 months since the Republican Party pushed forward new tax policies that they claimed would usher in a new era of middle-class prosperity and corporate spending. That didn't happen. Instead, the new law primarily benefited the fabulously wealthy while blowing a $1.5 trillion hole in the federal budget. As it turns out, this is all pretty spot-on to what the actual experts on these things had predicted.

But 18 months is a long time to go between rounds at crippling the national budget to reward Republican campaign donors, so the Trump White House is now considering a new tax cut for the wealthy—one that they believe Trump can enact with the fat-fingered stroke of a pen, bypassing Congress entirety. 

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