Worry not, tender plutocrats: The GOP hasn't forgot about cutting your taxes

Republicans removed your tax cut from their health bill. But don't worry, it was just a ruse.

Paul Ryan and other congressional Republicans.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

When Mitch McConnell released the new version of the Republicans' health-care bill on Thursday, it contained a surprise, one that might have caused cries of despair to echo through the canyons of lower Manhattan. While the savage cuts to Medicaid were still in the bill, the latest iteration retained many of the Affordable Care Act's taxes, including a 3.8 percent tax on investment income for those with incomes over $200,000 a year. Alas, our nation's selfless job creators will continue to suffer the crushing burden of taxation that turns their days dark with a despair that not even weekends at summer houses in the Hamptons can salve.

But worry not, my tender plutocrats. Your deliverance is coming, if you can wait a little longer.

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Paul Waldman

Paul Waldman is a senior writer with The American Prospect magazine and a blogger for The Washington Post. His writing has appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazines, and web sites, and he is the author or co-author of four books on media and politics.