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Conservative anti-tax groups ask Trump to give the rich another tax cut by executive order

Some people are never satisfied. That goes double for America's 1 percent, especially when it comes to tax breaks.

Not content with the enormous tax cut they received from President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress in December 2016, they're now angling for an additional tax cut. Even worse, they're proposing that Trump circumvent the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives by giving it to them via executive fiat.

The proposal is embodied in a letter to Trump issued Tuesday by 41 anti-tax and right-wing organizations. They include current or former affiliates of the Koch brothers' network such as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Club for Growth; Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform; the American Conservative Union,

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