Mark Pocan: “Something like 80% plus of the money in the tax break bill…”

“The biggest battle of the year and maybe of the Trump presidency will be a reconciliation bill that has a huge tax break for the wealthiest in this country. He did it the last time he was president as well. Something like 80% plus of the money in the tax break bill went to the top 1%. leaving pennies for the rest of us. But that tax bill racked up trillions of dollars in debt that many of us are going to be repaying for a while …” (05:20–05:26)

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