oh to clarify it’s far from the best use of their resources. would totally agree on that.
Yeah Im not personally coming at you or anyone to be clear, just really frustrated with where this was all headed and think SALT is just an exceptionally bad use of political capital and strategy. Sort of forced by the margins in the House to some extent, but looks like all the moderates getting their goodies while the progressives get the shaft and are told to eat the shit sandwich or else they arent team players. Same as it ever was.
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You are confused about who they care about. Not the poors. No the lower middle class. Not the middle class. A bit of the upper middle class and especially the sorta rich and above.
This might be squarely aimed at the AOC types in those states. Tell the upper middle class whites that AOC tried to block their salt deduction. Tell AOC’s base that she passed salt with nothing for them. Dems are good at 4d chess when they want to be.
If there is no progress on anything for poor people, it absolutely does.
Here are the costs of the BBB subject to change.
Cant afford paid leave though, sorry guys, better vote harder next time.
Note could do a SALT cap protecting 95% of earners for like 20% of the cost.
SALT is a big voter turnout issue. also homeowners and high-income earners tend to vote at higher rates. there is research on this.
Maybe in all the states the dems already got locked up lol.
As Caffeine said at best this helps you in a couple house seats, but if they gerrymandered worth a shit it wouldn’t even matter there.
The fact that they can means test literally everything but SALT gives away the game.
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oh boy
Early numbers are suggesting a high turnout in Virginia, where the governor’s race is one of the most hotly contested in recent memory.
When voting began this morning, nearly 1.2 million Virginians had already cast their ballots. By comparison, 2.6 million voters turned out during the 2017 election, the last time the state picked its governor — a turnout of roughly 48 percent of all registered voters.
Although there’s still time for voting to slow down — and rain was falling in some parts of the state on Tuesday afternoon — so far nearly every county appears on track to exceed 2017 turnout.
What’s going to be the message to all the people in Georgia who make under $40k/year who pushed Biden and the senate over the edge?
“Well, we didn’t get a lot of our priorities done that help the working class. But we did get SALT back! That should really help all those people who make 5x your salary!”
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I’ll fucking vote Republican in 2022 if they add this and we still don’t get paid leave or medicare expansion etc.
I have to think Progressives will say fuck no. The most expensive thing in the package? JFC.
I’m fine with adding it back in if for some reason they also get Manchin and Cinema agree to putting other shit back in too because it helps their wealthy donors.
Im at least hopeful theres enough outcry to cap it. $70B for SALT for the bottom 95%, I still think its bad, but it is a lot more palatable then this. You make $5 mil in a blue state this is a big big tax cut.
Hes, of course, correct and his vote is every bit as important as Manchin’s.
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Bernie is a coward though
What is “Benefit to Top 5% of Earners”?
I think it means that $400 out of the $475 is a tax break for the top 5%, with the remaining $75 for the bottom 95%.
And the remaining $75 wouldn’t be distributed evenly. It’s almost entirely going to be in the top quartile.
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Oh, gotchya. That makes sense.
LOL the prescription drug thing starts in 2025 and applies to 11 drugs. LOL DEMOCRATS
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