Guest columnist Ben Stein is Policy Matters Ohio’s communications director.

After passing President Trump’s signature budget legislation this summer, the bill’s proponents began a public relations campaign to convince Americans not to believe their eyes.

Legislators who voted for the bill are shouting from the rooftops that they didn’t choose to cut Medicaid, jeopardize rural hospitals and increase the national debt -- all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the wealthiest households.

The story they tell about this “big beautiful bill” is so thin that it insults the intelligence of every Ohioan who hears it.

The ugly truth is that they have signed off on the largest upward transfer of wealth in American history. To do so, they rolled back decades of progress toward a heal

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