Earlier this month, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released estimates for the tax cuts that were made permanent in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, concluding they would make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
“The CBO estimates that the 10% of poorest Americans will lose roughly $1,200 a year as they experience restrictions on government programs like Medicaid and food assistance,” according to NBC News, “while the richest 10% of Americans will see their income increase by $13,600 from tax cuts. Overall, American households will see more income from the tax cuts in the legislation, including middle-income households, but the largest benefit will go to the top 10% of earners.”
The most crucial sentence is the last one: “Overall, American households will see more income from the tax cuts.” So, how does NBC square that circle? Well, the same way the “nonpartisan” CBO does — by pointing to restrictions in Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
However, SNAP was paying for all sorts of unhealthy, highly processed foods like candy and soda pop — hardly nutritional substances. “If a person is paying for their own healthcare, they are free to live as healthy or unhealthy as they choose,” our Thomas Gallatin observed back in April. “But if taxpayers are paying, should the people paying the bill not have a say in what lifestyle choices an individual is permitted to make, as poor decisions would cost everyone more?” Clearly, they should have a say.
Under the Trump administration, decisions are being made for the overall health and protection of the American taxpayer. Yet Leftmedia rags like NBC News and The Hill are bound and determined to keep hammering the bogus narrative that “billionaires need to pay their fair share.”
What do these left-wing outlets hope to gain by pushing this false narrative while also tacitly admitting that the tax cuts really do help everyone?
The Democrat strategy to grab and maintain power revolves around dividing people and creating class warfare. They want the lower- and middle-income brackets to feel existential dread and to resent the millionaires and billionaires. If they can pit the different income brackets against one another, just like they do with race, then they can coerce a powerful demographic into voting for them.
However, the Democrats fail to distinguish between lower-income people who pay taxes and lower-income people who manage to avoid them, either because they don’t work or because they earn too little. It’s an error that they constantly fall into, and it’s a similar false categorization that has prompted leftists like New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani to declare that policing and enforcing the law on misdemeanors such as shoplifting, assault without a weapon, and drug possession are the “instruments of class war” and “the criminalization of working-class survival.”
Conservative pundit Matt Walsh points out that the working class is disproportionately harmed by police not enforcing the law. It’s the working class whose CVS or Walmart locks up the shampoo bottles because other lower-income individuals — some of whom don’t work — decided to steal so much of it that stores had to take action to stay in business. It’s the working class whose cars are stolen. It’s the working-class people who are victims of assault. Those committing the crimes are sometimes illegal aliens and often don’t have a job or pay taxes. Yet the Left lumps them all together because they’re in the same income bracket? Make it make sense.
When it comes down to brass tacks, the Democrats are desperately searching for ways to paint the Trump tax cuts as nefarious. Therefore, when even they tacitly admit that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act helps everyone who pays taxes, that’s something — they’re just hoping you won’t notice.
