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Commentary: If you back Trump for his tax plan, you have to own his racism, misogyny and amorality too

With the passage by the House and Senate of bills cutting corporate taxes, Donald Trump's supporters finally have a substantive achievement to cheer besides the appointment of Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

Never mind that this legislation will add at least $1 trillion to the national debt - something Republicans professed to care about when it was the Democrats who were guilty of deficit spending. Never mind, too, that the tax code will be altered in ways no one can predict because no one had the time to

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