It’s Tax Day in the United States. “Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15,” President Ronald Reagan quipped during his 1984 reelection campaign. But Tax Day will be much worse next year if Republicans don’t extend our signature 2017 legislation—the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—and Democrats are trying to deceive the American people about the impact.
The Left’s lies about the act are nothing new. The New York Times noted in 2019 that most Americans received a tax cut from the 2017 tax reform but simply didn’t believe it.
“To a large degree, the gap between perception and reality on the tax cuts appears to flow from a sustained—and misleading—effort by liberal opponents of the law to brand it as a broad middle-class tax increase,” the paper wrote.
The New York Times was right, but Democrats…
