Trumps strategy for selling his tax reform plan is to outright lie about it

[n2doc]

The tax reform plan Donald Trump announced yesterday (pdf) is a dream for many of his wealthy Republican backers. It will likely let them keep millions of dollars away from the Treasury by eliminating the alternative minimum tax (which essentially prevents rich people from claiming too many tax breaks) and the estate tax, while slashing the rates rate paid by corporations and by the richest individuals.

It’s not going to work out so well for two other crucial constituencies, however: GOP deficit hawks and Trump’s millions of working-class voters.

How is the administration dealing with the displeasure of these groups? Well, as the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza points out, by straight-up lying:

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[fleur-de-lisa]

1. He outright lies about everything.

Why should taxes be any different?

[spanone]

2. ...and the sun also rises.

gary cohn is at the press briefing repeating all the lies

and deficits only apply to democrats

[Qutzupalotl]

3. and sometimes they come right out and say it:

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/352840-gop-lawmaker-deficit-a-great-talking-point-when-dems-have-power-different-with

[spanone]

5. deficits only apply to democrats....

i hate them.

[BainsBane]

4. What else is new?

[gratuitous]

6. That would be a bad strategy for most politicians

But for some reason, President Trump can blurt out the most patently false, easily disproved turd of nonsense, and every media outlet in the country reports it straight up. Days later, they might concede that Trump was full of shit, but by that time, the lie has leavened the whole loaf, and has passed into accepted wisdom.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Well, sure. His assholey little lips were moving.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

8. No one believes him but full-fledged members of his cult.

But we need to stop the cult growing and energize & mobilize everyone else. The GOP sleazebags are happy to lie right along with him. And we can't even depend on the MSM to clear and consistently call out his their BS.

We need a bigger operation to expose all these freakin lies! If only George Soros and other wealthy Dems were willing to fund, along with our donations, a massive, expertly managed counterattack.

I don't mean lie like the Pugs, just make it rain facts every single day.

[NCjack]

9. Look for lying' Graham and Cassidy to carry water on tax cuts in the Senate.

[SamKnause]

10. That is not only Trump's strategy, that is the Republican strategy.

Lie, cheat, and steal your way to success.

They won't stop until they turn the U.S. into a Corporate Controlled Fake Christian Theocracy.