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Nick Estes's avatar

Excellent, and necessary.

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James A. Robichaux's avatar

THIS PASSAGE RIGHT HERE!:

"Senator Manchin (D-WV) refused to vote for a package that wasn’t “fully paid for,” while Senator Sinema (D-AZ) refused to vote for the sweeping tax hikes that Biden insisted were necessary to “pay for” the spending."

THIS is the "deficit" myth at work!

This is how Democrats excuse themselves from doing what should be done!

One person gets to use the tax increases as an excuse to object to UNRELATED expenditures, and the other person gets to use THE ABSENCE OF the irrelevant taxes as an excuse!

When I say "person" in that sentence, I mean both legislators and regular voters or even pundits, because it naturally pits even people WITHIN the progressive-liberal coalition against each other. There are people who seem to actually think that, for example, student-debt cancelation would somehow "take money from" expanding healthcare access.

I wrote about the deadly myths about inflation here:

https://jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-deadly-duality-of-the-definitions

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