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How Dems learned to stop worrying (mostly) and embrace tax hikes
Democrats believe raising taxes is no longer a noxious political proposition, thanks to shifting attitudes about soaking the rich.
The public has seen billionaires get richer, corporations get richer during the pandemic, while they re suffering,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal. | Joshua Roberts/Getty Images
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President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are taking a big gamble: that raising taxes can be popular.
As discussions heat up about how to pay for trillions in new spending on infrastructure, Biden and his party want to hike taxes on the wealthiest Americans and on companies that have evaded federal taxes for years. Poll after poll shows those proposals are broadly popular with voters, particularly amid a deadly pandemic that s exacerbated the nation’s already stark economic divisions.
Kevin McCarthy s strange real estate saga: A luxury condo in D.C. and a tract house in California Salon 1 hr ago House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has evidently been living the high life when he s at work in Washington. But back in his home district in Bakersfield, California, McCarthy leads a far less glamorous existence, posing the question of how he affords his luxurious digs in the nation s capital.
McCarthy s home in Bakersfield home is a modest, middle-class residence, a 1,571-square-foot tract house built in 1987, with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, that the congressman and his wife purchased in 1996. According to Zillow, the home has an estimated market value around $300,000, and according to McCarthy s 2019 financial disclosure he has a mortgage on the home of between $50,001 and $100,000. Salon is not publishing t
Upton, Huizenga, criticize Republicans rewriting Jan. 6 riot By Peg McNichol
May 17, 2021 | 8:24 AM
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) After several Republican members of Congress made statements last week recast the Jan. 6 riots in Washington D.C. two West Michigan Congressmen are pushing back.
On CNN’s State Of The Union, U.S. Rep. Fred Upton said he doesn’t know what other Republican lawmakers are thinking as some are apparently trying to rewrite the history of what actually happened Jan. 6, 2021.
He said comments by other Republicans that Jan. 6 was a typical day were “absolutely bogus.”
I know that as I talked to other members of Congress, some of whom were in the chamber, it was terribly frightening,” he said.