Kevin Drum checks out the tax plans of the top four Republican candidates for the Oval Office. To no one's surprise, they all give a token tax cut to the middle class and a huge one to the top 1% of earners. Ted Cruz gives the biggest tax cut to the rich.
And they all balloon the deficit between six and nine trillion dollars over ten years. Donald Trump increases it the most, though I suppose all would argue that this will stimulate the economy and the growth will make up the lost revenue — which it never does. No matter how many times cutting taxes for the very rich fails to pay for itself with economic growth, some people will never give up the idea that it does.