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What Else Could We Do with $1.9 Trillion?
If we spent that money on infrastructure rather than tax cuts for the rich, we would get better economic performance and more good jobs.
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The Koch Brothers’ Best Investment
How a $40 million political outlay yields a $500 million tax cut.
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Accelerating the Death of Real Jobs
The Tax Act adds insidious new incentives to turn more jobs into casual contract work.
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Penalizing Marriage for the Poor
Incredibly, the Tax Act actually punishes low-income people for getting married.
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The Two Biggest Lies in Donald Trump’s Tax Plan
The tax plan was always going to be a huge giveaway to corporations. And the individual tax cuts were always heavily tilted to the top.
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Worsening Inequality
The Tax Act worsens inequality both in the tax changes and in the program cuts used to address the resulting deficit.
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The Tax Act That Lost Its Name
The Senate parliamentarian scotched the Republicans’ plan for a simple bill title.
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Massive Spending Cuts: The Tax Act’s Hidden Costs
Republicans rediscovered the peril of the enlarged deficit—as a pretext for gutting social spending.
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Denying the Child Tax Credit to Undocumented Children
A little-noticed provision in the Republican tax reform will strip billions in tax benefits from an estimated one million mostly low-income undocumented children residing in the United States.