There are two things we can say about Republican plans: 1. There are a lot of them, 2. Thank God they are rarely implemented. This is especially true of Republican tax plans. Now, it is certainly true that the U.S. tax code is a vague, complex monstrosity that punishes success and transfers money from “the rich” to “the poor” via refundable tax credits. But the tax code doesn’t need to be reformed, fixed, simplified, made flatter, made fairer, or replaced with something else—it needs to be repealed. And this is the root of the problem with all Republican tax plans. … Continue reading Republican Tax Scams