Exactly, frontload the benefits to market it as a great achievement and then screw them from behind when nobody is looking
"But in their scramble for inconspicuous ways of raising taxes on ordinary Americans (to finance giant cuts for corporations), congressional Republicans decided to change the inflation formula. Specifically, they chose to slow it down. This is one of the few permanent changes to the individual tax code in the GOP bill — and it functions as a small, annual, across-the-board tax hike. The measure will raise about $14.5 billion in new revenue in 2025, $33.8 billion in 2030, and $83.6 billion in 2040, according to the
Penn-Wharton budget model. In total, between 2018 and 2040, the provision will add $766 billion to the federal government’s coffers."
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