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BONUS: Where’s your $4,000 raise?

Posted on December 28, 2018May 20, 2021
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Civic Ventures president Zach Silk joins us for a quick explainer on how Republicans sold their trickle-down tax cuts as a great deal for the middle class—and how angry suburban voters punished them for their lies.

Further reading:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/04/10/donald-trump-gop-tax-cuts-wont-deliver-big-raise-column/471188002/

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/11/republican-tax-cut-for-rich-economy-215696

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