Sorry, middle-class America—you were always just an afterthought in the Republicans’ trillion-dollar tax scheme. A new report from Joint Committee on Taxation shows the nation's wealthiest stand to gain the most from the GOP's tax deduction for "pass-through" businesses, Donald Trump included. Vox writes:

The committee estimates that the owners of pass-through entities — companies organized as sole proprietorships, partnerships, LLCs, or S corporations that don’t pay corporate income taxes — will save $40.2 billion in 2018 thanks to the tax bill. Of that total, $17.4 billion will go to individuals and households making more than $1 million per year. (Revenue estimators are based on tax returns, so a married couple filing jointly is one taxpayer, and a married couple filing separately are two.) (emphasis added) By 2024, the committee estimates pass-throughs will save $60.3 billion on taxes via the new law. More than half of the benefit — $31.6 billion — will go to individuals and households earning more than $1 million.

The GOP's tax scam continues to slide in the polls since getting a boost after an initial round of one-time bonuses issued in early 2018. In mid-April, Gallup found that a majority of Americans—52 percent—disapprove of the law while only 39 percent approve of it. That tracks almost perfectly with an NBC News/WSJ poll released the same day.

Just 39 percent foresee a positive impact from a stronger economy, more jobs and more money in their pockets; 53 percent foresee a negative impact from higher deficits and disproportionate benefits for the wealthy and big corporations.

Looks like 53 percent of Americans didn’t need a fancy report to know who was on the losing end of the GOP tax law. But guess who was on the winning end?