With year two of Republicans’ Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) now underway and the party touting the $1.5 trillion tax plan’s supposed successes, critics of the unpopular law are spotlighting the party’s broken promises and saying the so-called tax scam merely helped to make 2018 another year of bloated corporate profits and enriching the already wealthy.

In fact, the wealthy were “celebrating like it was Christmas all year, which it basically was for them,” wrote Frank Clemente, executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF).

Or, as Patriotic Millionaires put it bluntly, “the rich only got richer in 2018.”

Linking to an article in the Washington Post urging Republicans to mute their cheers, ATF said, “Of course the GOP wants to celebrate their tax scam. It did exactly what it was intended to do: hand the wealthy, big corporations, and their rich mega-donors a massive tax giveaway!”

One of those wealthy individuals is Morris Pearl, who’s chair of the board of the Patriotic Millionaires. In a recent op-ed, he wrote:

“This year over a fifth (21 percent) of the tax cuts are going to the richest 1 percent, who on average are expected to get a tax cut of $50,000,” Clemente also noted. “By the time the TCJA is fully implemented nine years from now, the share going to the top 1 percent will jump to an eye-popping 83 percent.”