Michael Hiltzik: The Republican tax plan is an arrow aimed at blue states
Government budgets are political documents, as the adage goes, but tax proposals are even more so.
Nothing illustrates this as well as the House Republican tax bill released Thursday. It's essentially a handout to big business and the rich, which are the Republicans' chief patrons, and an attack on Democratic-leaning states and their taxpayers. Californians, along with residents of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Illinois, should lay in a supply of antacids now because they're going to be feeling severe indigestion as this product moves through the congressional alimentary canal.
Even if the 429-page tax bill released Thursday by the House Ways and Means Committee reflected some sort of political consensus on tax policy, it would be subject
