As for his plan being all about helping the lower and middle class, which Trump emphasized on Sunday when telling reporters “We think we’re going to bring the individual rate to 10 percent or 12 percent, much lower than it is now,” you may be surprised to hear that’s not totally accurate! As Bloomberg points out, for 2017 the lowest income tax bracket is, wait for it, 10 percent. (For incomes between $9,325 and $37,950, the rate is 15 percent.)

As for corporations and the wealthy, Sahil Kapur reports that three tax lobbyists familiar with the emerging framework of the plan say that the corporate tax rate would drop from 35 percent to 20 percent, and the top individual tax rate would fall from 39.6 percent to 35 percent, with a 25 percent “pass-through” rate for certain business owners like hedge-fund managers and owners of a company called the Trump Organization. Those changes, the Tax Foundation’s Kyle Pomerleau told Bloomberg, “would cut taxes substantially for the top 1 percent of earners.”

But wait, you say. Didn’t Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin claim in November that there would be no “absolute tax cut” for the wealthy on Donald Trump’s watch? And the answer is yes, he did, and lawmakers even went so far as to refer to the statement as the “Mnuchin rule” during congressional hearings, but you weren’t supposed to take him literally or seriously. He was just letting words tumble out of his mouth and he can’t help it if you took them to heart. "It was was never a promise. It was never a pledge," Mnuchin said on CNN on Sunday.

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Treasury secretary thinks football players don’t have a right to free speech on the field

As you may have heard, over the weekend the president of the United States of America got into a long and drawn out out fight with . . . the National Football League. After initially tweeting that basketball player Stephen Curry was disinvited from the White House on account of “hesitating” in his decision to attend a ceremony with his fellow players, Trump proceeded to go on a multi-day tirade about all the terrible football players kneeling during the national anthem, and the team owners and commissioner for allowing them to do so. At one point, he used the phrase “So proud of NASCAR,” perhaps thinking the odds of a protester among its ranks was low, only for Dale Earnhardt Jr. to defend the right to protest. Luckily, one person he can always count on to back him up was making the rounds on the Sunday talk shows and just like he did in the wake of the Charlottesville controversy, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin defended his boss’s deranged weekend rants.

“The NFL has all different types of rules,” Mnuchin told Martha Raddatz on ABC’s This Week. “You can’t have stickers on your helmet; you have to have your jersey tucked in. I think what the president is saying is that the owners should have a rule that players should have to stand in respect for the national anthem. . . . This is a job. And the employers have the right, when the players are working, to have rules. So, you know, why didn’t they wear stickers? Why didn’t the Dallas Cowboys, why were they allowed to wear stickers in response to people they wanted to pay respect to? So, the NFL is picking and choosing what they want to enforce.” Mnuchin, who apparently spends about as much time studying the constitution as he does flying commercial, added that the players “Have the right to have the First Amendment off the field.”