How the GOP Became the Party of Tax Cheats

Republicans have a long and sordid history of not paying their fair tax share, but it didn’t start out that way. The tax rate on the morbidly rich was a robust 92% when Eisenhower took office. It wasn’t until Lewis Powell’s SCOTUS goons opened the floodgates in the late ‘70s, legalizing political bribery, and laying the foundation for the sorry state in…