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Tax Cuts for the Rich Help the Rich, Not You
It hard to keep
an eye on the truth
J osh h oxie
Soon you’re going
to hear about taxes.
You’ll see imag-
es of families flash-
ing across your TV
screen while a sooth-
ing narrator assures
you that the tax plan
being debated in Washington really is good
for you. The newspapers you read, the
social media apps you scroll through, the
websites you frequent, and the snippets of
radio you catch will all feature ads talking
about it.
That’s what a marketing blitz looks like,
and there’s one coming for the Trump tax
plan. It will be well-produced, well-or-
chestrated, and completely devoid of facts.
President Trump started his sales pitch
for his tax cutting agenda in Missouri in
August, where the assembled audience
was treated to a fact-free sermon on the
virtues of his plan. Gone were any specif-
ics of what’s in it, or who gets what.
Looking at Trump’s tax plan from the
campaign, as well as what the Republican
majority in the House of Representatives
by
have proposed, we can see the basic out-
lines of what’s coming.
Corporations will see their nominal tax
rates drop from 35 percent to 20 or even 15
percent. Individual rates will go down —
possibly for everyone, but definitely and
most strikingly for the very wealthy. Over-
all tax revenue will tank, potentially by as
much as $10 trillion over ten years.
What does all this look like in the real
world?
On the corporate side, we know for sure
that lower corporate taxes do not create
jobs.
In the ads to come, maybe you’ll see a
guy in a hard hat claim that corporate tax
cuts will put him back to work. He’s lying.
A recent Institute for Policy Studies re-
port looks at 92 profitable companies that
already pay an effective 20 percent tax rate,
thanks to loopholes. On average they’ve
cut jobs, even as the rest of the private sec-
tor saw a 6 percent jobs increase.
On the individual side, half of the pro-
posed cuts will go to millionaires, accord-
ing to the Institute on Taxation and Eco-
nomic Policy. Less than 5 percent go to
families with household incomes below
$45,000.
This is probably the biggest wealth grab
in American history by the wealthy, for the
wealthy. Selling it as a middle-class tax
cut, regardless of the images in the ads you
see, is just old-fashioned lying.
And finally there’s the revenue. Trump
claims his tax cuts will pay for themselves
with increased economic growth. That the-
ory’s been debunked many times over and
yet remains stubbornly in play.
So what happens when trillions of dol-
lars of tax revenue get slashed?
Congress currently bans itself from
passing bills that increase the deficit in one
of their better acronyms — Pay As You Go
(PAYGO). That means the tax cuts Trump
proposes will have to come out of public
programs.
No matter how much hype you hear,
you’d better believe those cuts are gonna
hurt. From food assistance like the Wom-
en, Infant, and Children (WIC) program to
Head Start, and from clean water protec-
tions to unemployment insurance — it’s all
on the line.
It’s hard to keep an eye on the truth
when savvy marketing campaigns are hell-
bent on deflecting your attention away
from it. Don’t buy it. The Trump tax cut
plan is disastrous for working families and
for anyone who cares about a fair and just
economy.
Josh Hoxie directs the Project on Taxa-
tion and Opportunity at the Institute for Pol-
icy Studies. Distributed by OtherWords.org.