Left still does not get how regressive their tax and regulation policies are

William Sullivan:

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... Due to a persistent logical fallacy, maintained by blind faith alone, leading figures among the left are screaming from the ramparts that the Republican-led Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 should be a reason for Americans’ outrage. As Paul Krugman argues in a recent article at the New York Times:

Republicans lie about their agenda, pretending that their policies would help the middle and working classes when they would, in fact, do the opposite….

What Republicans stand for is cutting taxes on the rich and slashing social programs. Sure enough, last year they succeeded in ramming through huge tax cuts aimed mainly at corporations and the wealthy.

No data are introduced to support that claim. The reader is meant to blindly presume that the phantom downside of Americans enjoying an unemployment rate lower than at any time since 1969, having more money in their pockets due to smaller liability in federal taxation, and reaping the benefits of a booming economy (none of which is mentioned in Krugman’s piece, obviously) is that greedy American businesses also benefit from the tax cuts by having more money on their balance sheets. Therefore, the corporate tax cuts which help greedy and wealthy American businesses must come at the expense of American individuals.

Never does it occur to most opponents of the GOP tax cut that American individuals are largely doing better today than a year ago because American businesses are also doing better.

And it likewise never occurs to them that business owners do not pay the corporate tax, which was reduced from 35% to 21% in the GOP tax legislation, but that businesses merely tend to pass the costs of corporate taxation onward.

As famed economist Walter E. Williams elucidates, a “fact of the matter, which even leftist economists understand but might not publicly admit,” is that:

If a tax is levied on a corporation, and if the corporation hopes to survive, it will have one of three responses to that tax or some combination thereof. It will raise the price of its product, lower dividends or lay off workers. In each case a flesh-and-blood person is made worse off. The important point is that a corporation is a legal fiction and as such does not pay taxes. As it turns out,corporations are merely tax collectors for the government. [Emphasis added]

It's possible that Krugman doesn’t understand this simple truth, but it’s likelier that he understands it, but won’t “publicly admit” it, as Williams says, because he views corporations as “tax collectors for the government” which exist only to finance the government’s redistributive social programs.
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Krugman and other liberals are people who favor government greed.  They like a greedy government because they can use the government to create dependency among voters they want to keep in servitude to their agenda.