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RAB910

(3,501 posts)
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 10:16 AM Aug 2019

Trump has turned the government against the middle class

And while most working- and middle-class families saw a temporary tax cut, the permanent tax cuts for corporations are paid for by permanent tax increases on the middle-class. But if middle-class families were getting any benefit from the tax bill, it's likely been wiped out by the new costs that Trump is imposing on them through tariffs. Trump claims these tariffs are about helping workers. ...


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Trump has turned the government against the middle class (Original Post) RAB910 Aug 2019 OP
K&R, nearly 11 million Americans saw higher taxes uponit7771 Aug 2019 #1
Trump and complicit Republicans are seriously Golden Raisin Aug 2019 #2
It started with Reagan, almost 40 years ago FakeNoose Aug 2019 #3

Golden Raisin

(4,608 posts)
2. Trump and complicit Republicans are seriously
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 10:35 AM
Aug 2019

exacerbating and worsening it but it's been going on for a long time in relatively recent history ("Reaganomics", "trickle down", etc.)

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