Republicans pitch tax cuts for corporations, the wealthy in 2025 | Trump has asked wealthy donors for donations, promising large tax breaks in return if he retakes the White House.
This was the first and the one thing they united to do everything in their power to ensure passage in 2016.
Everything else following was theater and/or smaller scale quid pro quo. Those actions still have serious consequences, especially for reproductive rights and minorities, but delivering money to the wealthy is the one true gospel.
"Just one more tax cut bro. This time it'll work bro. Just lower the riches taxes one more time and it'll all trickle down and we'll all have our own houses and shit bro. Just one more tax cuuuuuuuuuuut"