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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.
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Former Wisconsin congressmen Reid Ribble and Tom Petri join a group of disaffected Republicans who say they re unhappy with the direction of their party in the Trump Era and would consider creating a new one.
Two former congressmen from Wisconsin join group of disaffected Republicans unhappy with Trump Era GOP Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Two former Wisconsin congressmen have joined a national group of Republicans who say they’re dismayed by the GOP’s direction in the Trump era and want to either “re-imagine” their party or create a new one.
The two are Reid Ribble, who represented Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District from 2011 to 2017, and Tom Petri, who represented the 6th District from 1979 to 2015.
They are among more than 100 disaffected Republicans (and ex-Republicans), many of them former government officials or former members of Congress, who signed an open letter Thursday rejecting populism, “fear-mongering, conspiracism and falsehoods.”