The Republican Party’s New Proposed Round of Massive Tax Cuts for the Morbidly Rich You Haven’t Heard Of

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There’s a primary reason republicans get away with lying to the American people about being the party of “tax cuts” and “fiscal responsibility”.

Messaging.

The corporate media structure is predicated on ratings, which equal money.

Since most of the wealthiest people have a personal stake in staying as rich as possible while paying next to nothing (and in some cases, actually nothing) in taxes, they naturally gravitate toward the party whose raison d’être lies solely in massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations — the republican party.

But there aren’t enough morbidly rich in the country to win all the elections republicans need to hold onto power, so they traditionally resort to fear, outrage, grievance, desire for horse race, racism, and a little salacious conspiracy theory to crank up average voters.

This is where the corporate media is happy to oblige.

The corporations that own the big American media conglomerates thrive on horse race because it’s how they generate ratings. Since those corporations are owned and run by people (corporations themselves are not people, after all, despite what the almighty US Supreme Court argued)…