GOP Tax Plan Will Benefit Rich People, Also, Very Rich People

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Here’s all the shit we couldn’t cover today:

• Here’s the extra terrible thing about the GOP tax plan: it’s extremely bad, but way more opaque and confusing and unfocused than the Obamacare repeal push, so generating the grassroots energy that helped sink Trumpcare is much more difficult this time around. On to the facts: a new report from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center has found that the GOP tax bill would only increase taxes for 12 percent of Americans next year—but that number jumps to nearly 30 percent by 2027, with mostly lower-middle class people taking the hit. [Washington Post, Vox]
• Rand Paul got his ribs broken over a “trivial” dispute, according to a lawyer for the man who assaulted him. I was going to say this is the weirdest story of the year, but it’s not even the weirdest story of this week. Still—weird! Read on. [New York Times]
• Some of the claims made in Donna Brazile’s memoir are being scrutinized. [The Daily Beast, Politico]
• Mueller reportedly has enough evidence to charge Michael Flynn and his son. [HuffPost]

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