… There is something wrong with a political system where the presidency is won on a populist message and the resulting policy is pure plutocracy, where #DrainTheSwamp becomes tax breaks for hedge funds, the well-connected, and the president’s family. But there is also something confusing about it. This is not […] Read more »
California voters down on GOP tax bill, poll finds
With Republicans on Capitol Hill poised to approve a massive tax bill as soon as Tuesday, most Californians say President Trump’s Christmas gift to America is a present they’d rather return than unwrap. More than half of California voters, 51 percent, oppose the tax bill, and just 30 percent support […] Read more »
Half The Public Say Their Taxes Will Go Up Under GOP Plan
Americans disapprove of the tax reform plan currently making its way through Congress by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. Half the public believe their own taxes would go up under this plan and a plurality would like to see Congress scrap the current effort and start fresh in 2018. Results of […] Read more »
How Republicans Learned to Sell Tax Cuts for the Rich
If anyone still believed that the Republican Party had become a party of economic populism, the tax bill that the party is set to pass in Congress will burst their bubble. … But the Republican tax strategy has roots in the American populist tradition, too. That strategy is to disregard […] Read more »
Will Passing The Tax Bill Help The GOP In 2018? Probably Not.
President Trump’s first year has been marked by an almost complete lack of major policy wins.1 But that could come to an end this week. Congress is on the verge of passing a massive tax bill into law. It would be the first major legislative victory for Trump and the […] Read more »
Passing the GOP tax bill is hard. Selling it to voters may be harder.
For Democrats, the $1.5 trillion Republican tax bill is the legislative embodiment of everything that’s wrong with Donald Trump: a faux-populist, debt-financed, me-first bill that benefits the wealthy at the expense of everyday taxpayers. Democrats think it will contribute to an anti-Trump backlash in next year’s midterm elections. And there’s […] Read more »