"The aligned interests of the Republicans and the billionaire owners of news media corporations is also why, no matter how loudly or how strenuously Democrats accuse Trump of implementing “the largest peacetime tax hike in US history,” the allegation rarely breaks through.

Basically, if it’s a tax on them, elites make it sound like a tax on you. If it’s a tax on you, they make you wonder if it’s a tax at all."

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"As things stand, however, we can reasonably conclude that, to the owners of the country’s most lucrative media properties, taxes are less important than the question of who’s paying for them. They are not making a major story out of the fact that Trump is burning up the middle class because it’s the middle class that’s getting burned up."

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"You would think that a president who is immiserating middle-class Americans with the biggest tax increase in over three decades would get the attention of a press corps that can otherwise be trusted to chase down every detail of every program that affects tax-payers."

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