Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez: Republican Tax Plan Slams Workers and Job Creators in Favor of the Rich and Inherited Wealth

Photo by Gage Skidmore

Photo by Gage Skidmore

“The tax plan released by Republicans in Congress and praised by President Trump is a remarkable document in many ways, but most notably in that it achieves just the opposite of its stated goal. Presented as a tax cut for workers and job creating entrepreneurs, it instead is a giant cut for capitalists and inherited wealth. It is a bill that rewards the past, not the future.”

(This piece is cross-posted with the Washington Center for Equitable Growth)

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