{"id":135268,"date":"2017-11-02T23:14:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T05:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135268"},"modified":"2017-11-04T15:05:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T21:05:31","slug":"im-shocked-shocked-find-gop-tax-cuts-will-benefit-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/02\/im-shocked-shocked-find-gop-tax-cuts-will-benefit-donald-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m shocked, SHOCKED, to find the GOP Tax Cuts will benefit Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The various bits and bobs to the middle class will help some, hurt others, and a lot of the helpful bits expire in a few years.<\/p>\n<p>But guys like Trump &#8212; they will be saving many, many millions of dollars every year (and be much more able to funnel that money to their kids) indefinitely. Which, of course, was what this tax reform bill was all about.<\/p>\n<p>Nice work, if you can get it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/our-columnists\/donald-trump-stands-to-gain-millions-from-the-republican-tax-bill\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/_H4_9nTw3umH2PJPb7ZdkUjGdyK1LlN7JeugIzuOp-V5Ey1JFv6fPv2w4xh92O2HlYe_wPNqNSMfjB51n35fkSaUSTZUFKpYsXRMdXBQRZjlHMurrL_Jz2YBnsT8_uoW3O7Wl_6TrQ96YD25BFj3b24-jR1jw12wt8D_ETYScjiLLqsOPxKH4UvJXmgrgt18p2lnCcWG0JmpPbin39UHlF4E7pTgXRMF=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/our-columnists\/donald-trump-stands-to-gain-millions-from-the-republican-tax-bill\">Donald Trump Stands to Gain Millions from the Republican Tax Bill | The New Yorker<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/SVu2gRBPiWp\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The various bits and bobs to the middle class will help some, hurt others, and a lot of the helpful bits expire in a few years. But guys like Trump &#8212; they will be saving many, many millions of dollars every year (and be much more able to funnel that money to their kids) indefinitely. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/02\/im-shocked-shocked-find-gop-tax-cuts-will-benefit-donald-trump.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m shocked, SHOCKED, to find the GOP Tax Cuts will benefit Donald Trump&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,528,374,376,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economic-justice","category-money-politics","category-taxing-spending","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Trump-in-shadow.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20930,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/unblogged-bits-mon-2-may-11-1730.html","url_meta":{"origin":135268,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Mon.  2-May-11 1730)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 2-May-11 5:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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