Trump Advisors Admit That His Tax Plan Was Just a Big Con

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The Trump campaign is working on a few “tweaks” to his tax plan:

An updated version of Donald Trump’s tax cut will be about one-third the size of the previous $10 trillion version, two campaign advisers said on Wednesday.

One-third! Down from $10 trillion to $3 trillion. I guess when you’re as fabulously wealthy as Donald Trump, $7 trillion hardly seems worth fussing over.

We’ve known all along that Trump’s “policy” proposals were mostly meaningless, but this is sure a brazen confirmation. I can’t wait for his new wall proposal: “We’ve tweaked it from 2,000 miles to 600 miles, and that’s already built. Mr. Trump gets things done!”

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