Dear Peasantry: Give Trump Back The House And He’ll Give You ‘Very Major Middle Income Tax Cut’

Earlier this week, talk of the ever-elusive "middle income tax cut" started up again, as it's wont to do whenever things get politically dicey for the White House. Larry Kudlow is reportedly working with GOP lawmakers on a plan to cut the "middle class" tax rate to 15%, the Washington Post reported. Kudlow subsequently made it clear that this is little more than a pipe dream. Even if the administration wanted to forge ahead it wouldn't matter - there is no chance of another tax cut passing the

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3 thoughts on “Dear Peasantry: Give Trump Back The House And He’ll Give You ‘Very Major Middle Income Tax Cut’”

The guy just can’t stop bribing people!

But of course bribery and corruption …. That’s what Trump has spent a life-time doin; at least when his efforts to bully, bluster and bullshit others has failed. As it is now clearly begining to do….

Happily, as H’berg points out, there is zero chance of the House approving this bribe before Nov 2020. Zero.

Too bad the Republicans never controlled the House and Senate under Trump. They would have done this already. Maybe they would have included the 15% rate in the corporate tax cut that passed under Paul Ryan (who I assume must have been the Democratic Speaker before Pelosi.)