Tax Cuts Don’t Work: It’s Time to Stop Selling the Fantasy

In this episode of The New Way Forward by The Future – Today & Tomorrow, Eric challenges one of the most durable myths in American politics: that tax cuts automatically help ordinary people.The conversation makes a straightforward case. Public services require money, and when government revenue is cut without a serious replacement strategy, the cost does not disappear. It shifts. Families pay more privately for education, infrastructure gaps, weaker systems, and other burdens that public investment once helped absorb. That means many tax cuts function less like relief and more like a political illusion.This episode is a blunt critique of tax-cut mythology and a call for a more honest conversation about what government costs, what society needs, and who really ends up paying. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ericfoster52.substack.com/subscribe