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By Greg Sargent September 28 at 10:50 AM
The term deplorables survives today in our political lexicon as a kind of sarcastic badge of honor that President Trumps supporters pin on themselves. When self-applied by the likes of Stephen K. Bannon, it serves as a device to feed the narrative that liberal elite criticism of Trump including the argument that he is scamming his own voters signifies nothing but cultural contempt for Trumps America. Trump supporters wont let supercilious liberal disdain weaken their conviction that Trump is the one who is really on their side, dammit! But a host of new developments underscore with fresh clarity that if anyone views Trump supporters with profound contempt, its Trump and his advisers and that liberals are right to point out that he is actively trying to fleece them. Consider:
* Trumps new tax plan eliminates the estate tax, which he has justified by claiming that it would help millions of small businesses and the American farmer. Thats a paean to his small-business and rural base. But as the Post fact-checking team points out, this is absurd: Because only the very top estates get targeted, a mere 80 such estates that would get hit by the tax in 2017 count as small businesses and farms. However, Trumps family would benefit bigly, because his estimated net worth is in the billions. As Roberton Williams of the Tax Policy Center puts it, Trump might not personally gain from estate tax repeal, because hell be dead. But his heirs will.
* Trumps new tax plan eliminates the alternative minimum tax. As Linda Qiu explains, this largely impacts people making between $200,000 and $1 million. Without this tax, Mr. Trump would have paid $31 million less in taxes in 2005, according to his tax return that year, which was disclosed on the Rachel Maddow Show in March.
* The mere fact that Trump would benefit from his tax plan does not itself mean he is scamming his supporters. Rather, the key here is that Trump is lying to them about this point. Trump says this about his plan: Its not good for me, believe me. But not only would he benefit, Trump also still wont release his tax returns, which would actually allow us to evaluate how his plan would affect him and his family. Trump doesnt want his voters (or any voters) to be able to do this. Trump is simply assuming that his voters will believe him (or he doesnt care whether they do or not), even though hes lying to them.
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(21,742 posts)crazylikafox
(2,755 posts)jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)As long as Dump continues to validate their peasant-like fears, ignorance, bigotry and racism, they'll continue to rally around him like the empty-headed fools that they are.
Initech
(100,068 posts)But they're too ignorant and distracted by the Fox Noise Channel to realize they've been had.