This is the Tom Hartman program.

Let's talk for a moment about a scam that's been going on in the United States ever since

the 1980s when Ronald Reagan came into office and dropped the top income tax bracket down

from 74% down to 25% and 18 times raised taxes on average working people.

Did away with the tax deduction for your car loan, did away with the tax deduction for

your credit card loan, added a tax to your social security income, added a tax to unemployment

income, a whole bunch of things like this.

This has been going on and by the way Democrats have been playing this game as well as your

publicans over the years, although in this particular case the Trump tax cut, this was

100% Republicans, but pro-publica, it's a nonprofit news organization and they somehow have

gotten these IRS files.

They're the ones who broke the big story last month about how of the 20 richest people

in America on average paid between 1 and 3% income taxes and more than half of them paid

nothing in income taxes.

These are people who are making literally hundreds of millions of dollars a year, in some

cases billions of dollars a year, paying no taxes whatsoever.

Well it turns out that there's a backstory to this that pro-publica lays out and we just

need to, whether it's a Republican doing it or a Democrat doing it, this is something

that we need to fix.

In November of 2017 they're noting as the Trump administration was pushing to get their

tax cut through Congress, Senator Ron Johnson, the Republican from Wisconsin, came

out and said, he wasn't going to vote for it.

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