The G.O.P. Tax Bill Is Unworkable

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3. Libertarian anything-goes ideology is a major force

behind this, and they are using that to rationalize doing away with the vast majority of taxes, regulations and government programs, such as Unemployment Insurance. If they can get away with it, they've just begun.

As is finally becoming clear enough for anyone to see now, though, even bigger forces are operating behind that pretense, authoritarian nationalist and religious right extremists.

One value of those conservatives who are blowing the whistle on this is that none of them think, "Oh, they wouldn't do that." They believe they will if they can. It really can happen here, and a first stage already has.

In the past year after turning our national government over to Republicans, the fear of the growth of a plutocracy has exploded into a new reality. For how that could happen, look to the quadrupling of the planet's wealth in the past 40 years and the unimaginable wealth we allowed a very few to accumulate here.