At present, the benefits of the Senate’s tax plan overwhelmingly go to corporate America, with approximately 25 percent of the middle class paying higher taxes in 2018, and one-third paying higher taxes in 2026. But sure, the savings from the repeal will totally end up in their wallets.

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Gary Cohn abandoned by the one group of people he thought he could count on

Last week, during a cringe-worthy interview with CNBC’s John Harwood that his fellow Goldman Sachs alums could not watch without experiencing overwhelming second-hand embarrassment, National Economic Council director Gary Cohn made a number of astounding statements. He insisted that getting rid of the estate tax has everything to do with farmers and nothing to do with people like Ivanka, Jared, Eric, and Donny Jr.; that if the wealthy get a tax break it’ll be purely coincidence; that trickle-down economics works; and that the “most excited group of people out there [about the tax plan] are big C.E.O.s.”

The last seems particularly ill-advised when one is attempting to sell the tax bill as all about the middle class. Worse, it seems as though corporate America won’t even play along when it comes to corroborating the G.O.P.’s claim that slashing the corporate tax rate to 20 percent will incentivize companies to invest, which will in turn unleash economic growth, which will in turn benefit the common man. Not only have several of the largest S&P 500 companies literally said they would spend the bulk of their tax savings on dividends and share buybacks, but on Tuesday, they refused to even pretend otherwise. At The Wall Street Journal’s annual C.E.O. Council, which is billed as “connect[ing] the world’s most ambitious and influential business leaders,” and where one would think the ex-Goldman president could find a sympathetic audience, associate editor John Bussey asked the audience for a “show of hands” indicating if their company planned to increase investment if their rates were cut, and if you’re Cohn, the response wasn‘t exactly what you were hoping for!

When you can’t even count on pity hands for the legislation you stuck it out with your Nazi-sympathizing boss to pass, you might want to rethink your life choices.