The features of the bill that are likely to help ordinary people were catchy and easy to understand—reduced taxes on tips and overtime pay and a higher standard deduction for the elderly on income taxes. Yet these projected revenue losses are tiny compared to those incurred by the super rich.
Akin Jimoh is a Nigerian science and health writer and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He holds two masters degrees,
