Taxes may be boring. And Donald Trump has done a lot of bad things. But in the long run—despite what I admit is stiff competition—his tax plan may do more harm than anything else.


Inequality is America’s most fundamental problem. Most of our other problems are rooted in our awful inequalities of wealth and power. We should be attacking inequality relentlessly at the federal level. This tax plan is not just a failure to do that; it is actually a statement that our federal government will be doing everything in its power to make inequality worse.


I will offer only the caveat that though this tax plan will be branded as “Trump’s” tax plan, it would be more accurate to call it the Republican Inequality Promotion Plan—it is the culmination of goals that the entire Republican Party has held for decades. Namely, to funnel more wealth to the rich at all costs. What will these proposals mean?

This is what the class war looks like. A bunch of percentages. Not as dramatic as we might wish. Instead of just seeing this as a tax plan, see this as a statement of direction. For at least four more years we will only be moving in one direction: deeper into the pit.