Fareed Zakaria is puzzled.  How can the GOP base support Donald Trump when all he is offering them is tax cuts and not pork-barrel welfare spending? I've always rather liked this guy even as a leftist, but this time he's really got the blinders on. In an op-ed for the Washington Post, titled "Maybe Trump knows his base better than we do" (doh!), he lays out the big question befuddling the Washington swamp: Congress's own think tanks – the Joint Committee on Taxation and the Congressional Budget Office – calculate that in 10 years, people making between $50,000 and $75,000 (around the median income in the United States) would effectively pay a whopping $4 billion more in taxes, while people making $1 million or more would pay $5.8 billion less under the Senate bill. And that doesn't take into account the massive cuts in services, health care and other benefits that would likely result. Martin...(Read Full Post)