Will the economic chickens come home to roost in 2019?

This time last year, congressional Republicans were celebrating the coup of having passed a major tax cut over the objections of the Democratic minority.

It was a political but not an economic coup, naysayers warned. The sugar jolt delivered to the economy by a tax cut aimed at corporations and the wealthy would leave millions of middle- and working-class Americans behind, and would have little staying power.

The jury is still out on those projections, but