This is the Tom Hartman program.

Once again, the Republican Party and their members in Congress have screwed average Americans in

order to give another huge benefit to America's super wealthy.

We discovered this basically day before yesterday as people started to carefully read the tax law

or this $2 trillion stimulus bill that was passed.

You know, people ask the question, how is it that you can have a two trillion dollar piece of

stimulus legislation that gets written in 48 hours? How is that possible? And the

easy answer is there's a long line of lobbyists

at the door and every single one of them

has their little 20-page piece to add to it.

And boom, you pile them all together

and you've got a thousand thousand page piece of legislation.

I mean that's really the bottom line.

You might have gotten twelve hundred bucks, but the truly rich got a fortune.

David Kay Johnson writing about this over at Ross Story, although I talked about this yesterday here.

It was on Daily Coes, it was in the New York Times.

This is a quote from David K. Johnson, quote,

almost 82% of the tax savings will go to the Trump-Cushner family and 4,300 of

their fellow millionaire landlords."

End quote.

It wasn't until after the bill was signed that we discovered that Mitch McConnell's

buddies in the Senate had slipped in this little tiny provision that

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