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The Empire Strikes Back—With More Billionaire Tax Breaks (with Samantha Jacoby)


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With Trump’s second major tax bill clearing committee and heading to the House floor—packed, as promised, with massive giveaways to the ultra-wealthy—we’re revisiting our timely conversation with Samantha Jacoby of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Originally recorded before Trump’s reelection, this episode breaks down the real impact of the tax bill that Trump signed into law back in 2017: trillions added to the deficit, corporations and billionaires cashing in, and working families left behind.


Spoiler alert: the rich get richer, and everybody else gets screwed. As Congress considers doubling down on the same failed policies, this conversation couldn’t be more relevant.


Samantha Jacoby is the Deputy Director of Federal Tax Policy with the Center’s Federal Fiscal Policy division. Samantha focuses on U.S. federal income tax issues, including corporate and business taxation, individual income taxation, and climate tax policy.


⁠This episode originally aired March 19, 2024.⁠


Social Media:

⁠@centeronbudget.bsky.social⁠

⁠@jacsamoby⁠

⁠@CenterOnBudget⁠


Further reading: 

⁠Ten Questions on House Republicans’ Upcoming Tax Bill⁠


⁠The 2017 Trump Tax Law Was Skewed to the Rich, Expensive, and Failed to Deliver on Its Promises⁠


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