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Conservatism is about performance. Liberalism is about performance art. We can't change the latter, but we can reinforce the former.
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Conservatism is about performance. Liberalism is about performance art. We can't change the latter, but we can reinforce the former.
What qualifies as middle class? To Bob Menendez, it's everyone earning below $550,000. Bernie Sanders disagrees. The stakes are blue-state tax breaks.
President Joe Biden repeatedly said he would raise taxes only on the rich to pay for his Build Back Better plan, but now he backs a tax break for millionaires and billionaires, contradicting with his past promises.
The Joint Committee on Taxation first said Biden's economic plan will cut taxes for the rich, but in a major correction, said it will do the opposite.
Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema haven't approved Build Back Better yet, jeopardizing measures like Medicare expansion or a price cap on insulin.