{"id":2059,"date":"2018-02-04T01:27:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T09:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2018-02-04T01:27:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T09:27:40","slug":"trumps-tax-scam-the-2017-tax-cut-and-jobs-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/trumps-tax-scam-the-2017-tax-cut-and-jobs-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Tax Scam, the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the edited and written-up version of the presentation I gave at Traditions Cafe at the Economics for Everyone Event in Olympia Washington on January 31st, 2018. It appears in the March 2018 issue of <em>Works in Progress<\/em>. Thanks to Keely Miller for her editing of my talk.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/files\/2018\/02\/Peter-Tax-Billrevised.pdf\">Analysis of Trump&#8217;s 2017 Tax Bill and 2018 Budget Proposal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The December 2017 tax deform legislation, The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations and their stockholders, will raise health care premiums, further endanger the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve and the environment, and it will lead to further cuts for flawed but still important social and public welfare programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, Pell grants, etc. unless we build active resistance to these cuts and movements that go beyond demanding that we maintain the status quo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4,9,10,14],"tags":[33,34,43,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}