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Republicans rushing tax reform through

Republican class warfare: The G.O.P. tax bills look like attempts to entrench a hereditary plutocracy. Trump argues that GOP tax bill should do more to help out the rich. More than 400 millionaires tell Congress: Don’t cut our taxes. Molly Michelmore on how the GOP uses “family values” to slash taxes: They’re less concerned with morals than with wealth. Brian Beutler on the grift Republicans keep on giving. If the tax bill is so great, why does the GOP keep lying about it? The GOP has done the impossible: Make tax cuts unpopular. Why are Republicans rushing tax reform through? So voters don’t find out who loses. How Republicans gamed budget rules to pass their tax cut. The G.O.P. is no party for honest men: Republicans on taxes — the most dishonest selling job in U.S. political history.

The tax reform debate is stuck in the 1970s. House Republicans are actually delusional enough to think the Trump tax cuts will help them. Republicans only have one plan: Sometimes they call it “tax reform” — other times “health-care reform”. First, Republicans want tax cuts — next, they’ll try gutting Medicare and Social Security.