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O PINION
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Rewarding the Wealthy and Corporate America
Working people
lose again
by l arry
h anley
A Nation unable to
pay its bills is borrow-
ing to further enrich its
billionaires and mil-
lionaires with a tax “reform” bill
that transfers a massive amount of
the nation’s wealth from the mid-
dle class to the nation’s richest in-
dividuals and corporations.
Congressional
Republicans
justify this unprecedented raid
on the U.S. treasury with the flat
earth claim that big business will
use the windfall to create new jobs
that will benefit the entire country.
Making matters worse,
under this obscene bill
America goes further in
debt adding at least $1.5
trillion to the federal deficit
over 10 years.
Not a single hearing was
held on the Tax Cuts and Jobs
Act, which was rushed through
Congress without Democratic in-
put, and passed without a single
Democratic vote. The bill creates
the largest one-time reduction
in the corporate tax rate in U.S.
history - permanently from 35 to
21 percent - while claiming all
Americans will see tax reduc-
tions, which eventually expire.
The other shoe in the GOP
tax scheme will drop next year
when Republicans are expected
to call for deep cuts in Medicare,
Social Security, and other social
programs that protect America’s
most vulnerable citizens – cuts
they’ll say are necessary by the
lower federal tax revenues they
have just created.
Moreover, the bill will drain
the public resources that could
have been invested in a bipartisan
infrastructure bill. If we see leg-
islation for transit and highways
from the Trump Administration
in 2018, it will likely be poisoned
with incentives for greedy private
consortiums to fleece the Ameri-
can people as they travel around
on our decaying roads and rail-
ways.
A myriad of other changes in
the new law also threaten to in-
crease the tax liability and dimin-
ish the standard of living of many
working families.
This outrageous and immoral
tax legislation has been sold to
the American people on the basis
of a brazen lie that it will auto-
matically create job and wage
growth. Yet corporations and the
wealthy will simply pocket the
money they don’t need so they
can buy more private jets and
vacation homes while the rest
of working and middle class bus
drivers, nurses, teachers and their
families continue to struggle to
provide for their families.
America was the victim of a
heist today. The culprits were the
world’s richest people and cor-
porate America, and behind the
wheel of the getaway car sat the
Republican Congress. Rest as-
sured they will be held account-
able for their grand larceny come
Election Day in November 2018.
Larry Hanley is president of
Amalgamated Transit Union In-
ternational.