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Tax 'reform' for the rich: Trump's plan abandons his working-class supporters

  • Written by Steven Pressman, Professor of Economics, Colorado State University
imageTrump's tax plan will cost trillions. AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin

President Donald Trump heralded his new tax plan as relief for the middle class, revenue-neutral and a “middle-class miracle.”

Yet the proposal, announced on Sept. 27, does none of these things. Instead, it is a scam not fit to become law of the land because it will enrich the...

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