The Republican "Tax Cut" Scam Is Crashing And Burning With American Voters.

Dartagnan at the Daily Kos

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/18/1757927/-The-Republican-Tax-Cut-Scam-Is-Crashing-And-Burning-With-American-Voters

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Americans have now been collecting post-tax-cut paychecks for more than two months — and they still don’t like Donald Trump’s signature legislative achievement. In fact, as Republicans fan out across the country Tuesday for “Tax Day” rallies celebrating their law, the vast majority of voters still refuse to accept that their taxes have even gone down.

As reported by Eric Levitz for New York Magazine, the tax giveaway to the rich passed by House and Senate Republicans last year was the least popular “tax cut" in history. It’s even less popular, on balance, than the tax hikes under George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way. In the feverish minds of Republican Congressmen, Americans were supposed to salivate like Pavlovian dogs and roll over to bask in the enormous tax cuts they’d been promised. They were also supposed to magically forget all the harrowing warnings about “exploding the deficit” that Republicans used over and over to justify their attempts to cut programs like Social Security and Medicare.

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The most recent poll on the legislation is particularly grim: This month, NBC News and The Wall Street Journal found that the tax cuts have grown more unpopular since taking effect, with just 27 percent of Americans calling the legislation a “good idea,” and 36 percent deeming it a “bad one.” What’s more, just 39 percent of the public expects the tax cuts to have a “positive impact” by strengthening the economy and growing jobs — while 53 percent foresee a negative impact from “higher deficits and disproportionate benefits for the wealthy and big corporations.”

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