Forget tax bill...GOP already funneling middle class wealth up to ravenous weathy

The GOP don't need no stinkin' tax cut bill to keep the sweep of middle class wealth moving inexorably upward to the greedy rich. Since 2010, they have cut the IRS' budget by 18% and reduced enforcement staff by a quarter. The mega rich with their mega mouthpieces have taken notice, fearing less and less the formerly long reach of the tax police. Not satisfied with simply gaming the system through enforcement cutbacks, Republicans endlessly repeat the Big Lie that US businesses are the most taxed in the industrialized world. But the official 35% business tax rate they cite to justify this latest legislative giveaway averages just 21% with many profitable companies paying zilch. And that decimated IRS enforcement staff? The 1 Percenter in Chief is proposing to another round of waterboarding in the bathtub of Republican greed.