Another Day, Another Lie in the Tax ‘Reform?’ Debate

If the Proposals are so Good, Why Can’t Their Supporters be Honest

The Republicans are preparing to assault the nation with a huge tax cut for wealthy individuals and wealthy corporations.  To do this they have to call it ‘reform’ because who would be opposed to reform.  And they have to do misleading ads and surveys.  One such survey is reported by the WaPo.

In the first spots, paid for by the American Action Network, a laid-off steelworker worries that without “lower taxes for working families,” more jobs will be “lost to China.” At rallies and forums in several states, Americans for Prosperity has pitched tax reform as a way to “unrig the economy.” And in a polling memo made public this week, the AAN found that 65 to 73 percent of voters responded favorably to reform if it was pitched as a way to “restore the earning power” of the middle class and “save billions of dollars” each year “on tax preparation services.”

The mystery here is why there was not 100% favorable responds to a poll that said tax cuts would restore earning power and save billions.  But of course maybe there were people who recognized the big lie when they saw it.  The middle class ain’t getting big tax relief, most of it will go to the upper classes.  And nobody should think things will be simpler, they will be more complex and the tax prep software people will make more money not less.