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re: #339 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO

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It’s a floating smudge pot.

re: #363 Hecuba’s daughter

First — the issue is that for most middle class taxpayers, the tax cut was very modest; but it was sold as giving the average family a $4,000 pay raise. For some of us in blue states, it provided a significant tax increase.
Second — in 1994, the GOP managed to take over Congress and the Senate, at least in part by persuading middle income Americans that the Clinton tax package raised their taxes when it actually raised taxes only on the top 1.2%.

Progressives did not lie about the nature of the Trump tax plan; our press once again failed to raise the alarm about this dreadful GOP plan.

Third - The Upward Monetary Redistribution Act (aka the Trump Tax Cuts) cut a lot of people off from the Earned Income Tax Credit by moving their tax brackets, either cut or eliminated various tax deductions, and altered the withholding tables so as to give people the illusion of getting a “pay raise.” All of these raised taxes on the middle class, such that many are finding themselves owning for the first time in their lives, wiping out any “savings” from the reduction in the raw rates.