It's Official: How the Koch Brothers Killed Trump’s Job Plan

By artappraiser on Tue, 05/02/2017 - 2:59pm |

The president’s new tax bill jettisons his old proposals to boost domestic production.

By Jefferson Morley @ Alternet, April 26

[....] What happened? Trump got rolled by the combined lobbying machine of the Koch brothers and the retail industry. Americans for Prosperity, the Kochs' political action organization, ran TV ads denouncing the BAT as a $1.2 trillion tax increase on seniors and the working poor. Another Koch-funded group defined the measure as a tax increase on millennials [....]

For background, see Retailers Go To 'BAT' Against Trump Import Tax @ Forbes, Feb. 8.

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