Washington • The tax bill the GOP is trying to foist on the country is not only an unfair and deficit-bloating hodgepodge written on the fly. It is also deeply corrupt. No matter how much they wring their hands ahead of time, all Republicans who vote for this bill will be joining their party’s festival of corruption.
Corruption is not a word to be used lightly, so let’s discipline its invocation by accepting the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s first two definitions: “dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people” and “inducement to wrong by improper or unlawful means.