Thom Hartmann for BuzzFlash: Jared Kushner and Landlord Millionaires Grift the Taxpayer in Coronavirus Bailout

April 15th 2020

By Thom Hartmann

Once again, the Republican party and their members in Congress have screwed average Americans to give a huge benefit to America’s super wealthy. You might’ve gotten $1200, but the truly rich got a fortune. As David K. Johnston is reporting over on Raw Story, “Almost 82% of the tax savings will go to the Trump-Kushner family and 43,000 of their fellow millionaire landlords.” It wasn’t until after the bill was signed that we discovered that Mitch McConnell‘s buddies in the Senate had slipped in a tiny provision that gave massive tax breaks and profits to real estate moguls like Trump and Kushner.

No wonder Donald Trump was so eager to sign the legislation. And now Mitch McConnell is demanding hundreds of billions of dollars in more tax breaks and gifts to big corporations and the Trump crime family, while attacking Democrats for not going along. Americans are sick and tired of this; we have been watching this kind of behavior ever since the Reagan revolution in 1981 and we are over it. The neoliberal Reaganomics experiment of the last 40 years is a fraud and we all need to support progressive politicians who are saying “No” to more billionaire bailouts.

Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of The Hidden History of the War on Voting and more than 30 other books in print. His most recent project is a science podcast called The Science Revolution. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute.