Republicans are pushing forward a $3.8 trillion tax cut package that primarily benefits the wealthy; defunds services like Medicaid, food stamps, and education programs; and adds $5.2 trillion to the national deficit. So it's worth asking: How did we get here? How did cutting taxes become an American obsession?
In our new Lever Time podcast miniseries Tax Revolt, we provide the answer.
In a four-part series months in the making, the Lever Time team traces the anti-tax movement from a radical fringe theory to a political juggernaut that reshaped the Republican Party, dethroned presidents, and transformed the country.
Along the way, we detail:
- The 1978 version of DOGE
- The birth of a supply-side Santa Claus
- The promise that broke a president
- The rise of the pledgemaster
And we scrutinize what it means that tax cuts have become the central mission of President Donald Trump’s administration: Are we witnessing the culmination of the anti-tax movement’s decades-long crusade? Or will the tax revolt finally meet its end?
Listen and subscribe to the Tax Revolt miniseries on your podcast player of choice — Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and all others — or check out the series on YouTube.
And for more insight into the tax revolt, listen to Lever Time’s interview with the man who created the cult of Reaganomics, exclusively for premium Lever Subscribers.
