Is there anyone (anyone?) who thinks that a Tax Bill written by Republicans and signed by Donald Trump won't do a lot for the financial well-being of Trump and others in his bracket? The plan as proposed is vague and lacking many details…and it would seem at this stage to be helpful to a lot of lower and middle-class folks, as well. But they'll insist that's so no matter what the final version does and we already have Gary Cohn, who's the the director of the White House Economic Counsel saying he "can't guarantee" that some folks' taxes won't go up. Anyway…
- Jordan Weissmann explains why your taxes might go up even as rich folks' taxes go down.
- North Carolina Representative Mark Walker — a Republican — admits that his party really doesn't care about deficits when they're in power. It's only when Democrats are in control than the G.O.P. has to yell and scream that deficits are destroying America. Matt Yglesias reports.
- Trump says that doing away with the Estate Tax will "protect millions of small businesses and the American farmer." Politifact explains why that gets their Pants-On-Fire rating for lying of the highest order.
- Legal scholar Benjamin Wittes doesn't know whether Trump's travel ban is legal or not. But he's studied it enough to decide it's really. really stupid.
- Trump wants to pull out of the nuclear deal for Iran. Daniel Larison explains why this would not make us one bit safer and would isolate us from so many of our allies.
Lastly: In the latest Quinnipiac Poll, 56% of the voters they asked said that Trump is "not fit to serve as president," as opposed to 42% who think he is. It's a good measure of how polarized this nation is that only 2% of voters don't fall into one of those two categories. Remember when it was Barack Obama's fault that he was such a polarizing figure? And, hey: 94% of black voters think Trump is unfit. Remember how he had an excellent relationship with "the blacks?"