Trump's Middle-Class Tax Pledges Go Unfulfilled in Senate Bill
Source: Bloomberg
By Toluse Olorunnipa
December 7, 2017, 4:00 AM EST
President Donald Trump and Republican congressional leaders are on the brink of achieving their top priority, centerpiece tax legislation, but only after a series of inaccurate claims and broken promises.
Lawmakers have made -- and then retracted -- pledges that their planned overhaul bill wouldnt raise taxes on any middle-class families. Trump and his top aides have said the changes wont cut taxes for the highest earners, statements that are demonstrably false.
And all of them argue that the proposed tax cuts, estimated to reduce federal revenue by more than $1.4 trillion, wont increase federal deficits, an assertion thats been contradicted by Congresss official tax scorekeeper.
The challenge is that there were a lot of promises made that cant live comfortably with each other, said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The biggest loser in all this was their commitment to fiscal discipline, which went away as fast as you can blink.
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