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To the soon-to-be dismay of President Trump supporters, when the reality-TV-star-turned-most-powerful-man-on-the-planet said the forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer, he was actually talking about his plutocrat pals.

Less than a week on the job, and Trumps already handing out candy to the wealthy. His tax cut planwhich is a version of George W. Bushs tax cuts on steroidsis now being shifted to the unpaid for category.

Thats right: Trumps team is mulling the notion of saying screw it, the tax cuts will pay for themselves through HUUUUUGE economic growth, so we dont have to offset them with additional revenue or spending cuts.

If you remember, this worked out very well under President George W. Bush, who implemented two unpaid for tax cuts skewed heavily toward wealthier Americans; two unpaid for wars; a new, unpaid for entitlement system (Medicare Part D); and other pearls of economic mastery that led to an unimpressive decade of job growth in the 2000s while keeping the level of income inequality trucking along unimpeded.

Its not just the fact that Trumps tax cuts for the wealthywhich nonpartisan tax analysts have said will add between 10 and 11 trillion dollars to the debt while giving the wealthiestamong us over $1 million in cuts this yearwill most likely be unpaid for.

Trump, working with his Ayn Rand-loving Speaker of The House Paul Ryan, will be giving out huge goodies through repealing Obamacare.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the 400 richestfamilies in America would get an average tax cut of $7 million per year while raising taxes on nearly 7 million low-to-moderate income Americans.

First, it would eliminate two Medicare taxes the additional Hospital Insurance tax and the Medicare tax on unearned income that both fall only on high-income filers, thereby cutting taxes substantially for those at the top.

-The top 400 highest-income taxpayers whose annual incomes average more than $300 million apiece each would receive an average annual tax cut of about $7 million, we estimate from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data.

-This groups tax cut would total about $2.8 billion a year.

-The roughly 160 million households with incomes below $200,000 would get nothing from the repeal of these two taxes.

Obamacares repeal will also raise taxes on working people through the removal of tax credits that helped low-income and minority people buy health insurance. For 2017, that tax credit is worth $4,800.

Im sure the millions of blue-collar working class Americans who were swept away by Trumps populist fire breathing will be swimming in a bed of Benjamins with policies like this!

Dont get me wrong: Obamacare is definitely not the ideal healthcare system. It has NOT significantly reduced the cost of healthcare or reined in the insurance companies from price gouging. Its also increased deductibles to frightening levels for a large swath of the country.

But, in the absence of a single-payer systemthe one the rest of the industrialized world uses to great effectits much better than the previous, your-shit-out-of-luck system that offered a death sentence to citizens with preexisting conditions.

Beyond Obamacare,the 45th president is reviving the Keystone XL Pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline: two oil pipelines that do NOT increase DOMESTIC energy or U.S. jobs but will certainly increase the already insanely large coffers of big oil executives and their shareholders.

Both pipelines will be used nearly exclusively for foreign exportsyou know, the kind of business that makes fat cat oil companies richer but doesnt lower the price of gasoline for the people who voted for Trump.

And, contrary to what the president says, these two pipeline will not create an explosion of jobs: pipelines create temporary jobs during construction, not permanent, good-paying jobs.

In the case of the Dakota Access Pipeline, the local North Dakota economy was stimulated more by water protectors flooding in to fight the pipelineand spending money on supplies and other necessitiesthan jobs the pipeline created.

But, heres the best part of all of Trumps socialism for the rich: Republicans and establishment, corporate Democrats are shown to be the hypocrites they truly are.

These same folks who railed against Senator Bernie Sanders radical policies steeped in Democratic socialism have no problem with the redistribution of wealth to plutocrats and their campaign donors.

And make NO MISTAKE ABOUT ITthese polices are indeed redistribution. You think wealthy folks get tax breaks and nobody pays for it? Payment time comes when leaders like Trump run up the debt and deficit and then rail about the need to cut spending.

What will get cut in order to shrink the debt he exploded in order to pay his rich pals? Education, police, fire departments, research & development, funds for critical government departments like the EPA, welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.

Its called socialism for the plutocrats, where poor, low-income, and formerly middle class people pay for millionaire and billionaires to buy another yacht.

In reality, Trumps not making America great again, because its been super duper great for a long time for wealthy folks.

Instead, hes moonwalking America back again.

To the 1920s Gilded Age.

Jordan Chariton is a Politics Reporter for The Young Turks, covering the presidential campaign trail, where hes interviewing voters on both sides. Hes also a columnist for Mediaite and heres his latest column. Follow him @JordanChariton and watch videos at YouTube.com/tytpolitics.

This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.

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