Republican War Against The Middle Class

The Republicans are marching together in support of a failed, hideously unpopular and massively regressive tax reform.

The results will be a permanent, gigantic financial benefit to the already whoppingly wealthy, with a pitiful cupful of crumbs for everyone else.

Articles

Rolling Stone - How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich

The inside story of how the Republicans abandoned the poor and the middle class to pursue their relentless agenda of tax cuts for the wealthiest one p

Salon - 14 ways Republicans have declared war on the middle class

Poll after poll shows Americans strongly oppose almost every facet of the new GOP budget proposal

BostonGlobe.com - Bernie Sanders: The war on the middle class - The Boston Globe Corporate greed must end, and we must make our economy work again for working families.

The Mercury News - Hornets’ nest: How the Republican tax-reform bill could affect middle-class Americans

Observer - GOP Screws Middle Class, Throws Democrats a Lifeline

By passing a tax reform plan that disadvantages the middle class, Donald Trump and Republicans just threw red-state Democrats a lifeline.

theweek - The Republican tax bill is class war

Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day`s breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons.

The New Yorker - The Republican Tax Plan Contains More Middle-Class Pain Than Even Its Critics Are Saying

Sheelah Kolhatkar on how middle-class taxpayers could be affected by the Republican plan to eliminate the personal exemption.

HuffPost - Welcome To The Class War

Financial capital is people, my friend.

Forbes - How The GOP Tax Plan Scrooges Middle Class, Retired And Poor

GOP Tax reform scrooges the middle class and poor. Here how it works.

NewsBusters - Fineman: 'Drunk' Republicans in 'All-Out War' on Middle Class, Tax Cuts Get Them 'In Trouble'

Appearing as a guest on Friday`s The Beat with Ari Melber, Huffington Post global editorial director Howard Fineman -- also an MSNBC contributor -- went negative on Republicans planning to cut taxes as he described them as `getting drunk on egg nog,` and claimed that cutting taxes `periodically gets them into trouble.` He went on to suggest that the internet deregulation plan

The Independent - Donald Trump just admitted the Republican tax bill was deceptively sold President Donald Trump was so excited about passing his first major piece of legislation on Wednesday that he blurted out that the Republican Party had misrepresented the entire bill, handing Democrats some talking points for the 2018 midterm elections.

POLITICO Magazine - Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests? Trump’s first year in office revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system.