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The Tax Foundation actually finds that under Jeb Bush’s tax plan, the biggest tax cuts will go to the wealthiest Americans. Ditto for Donald Trump’s plan. That isn’t just true in dollar terms but also in percentage terms. Their plans would eliminate taxes like the estate tax and the alternative minimum tax that primarily affect the wealthy. CORRECTION (Oct. 28, 10:40 p.m.): A Tax Foundation analysis concluded that under Marco Rubio’s tax plan, the biggest cuts (in percentage terms) would go to the poor, followed by the wealthy. (The middle class would get the smallest cut.) An earlier version of this post said the largest cuts would go to the rich.

I’m going to say no. A poll taken just before the 2014 midterm by Fox News found that just 5 percent of Republicans said that income inequality was the most important economic problem facing the nation. That was the lowest of any economic problem.