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Report: Moderate House Democrats Oppose Joe Biden’s Potential Infrastructure Tax Hikes

Wendell Husebo 29 Mar 2021

Moderate House Democrats are pushing back against potential tax hikes intended to fund President Joe Biden’s $3 trillion infrastructure package.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) have said they will not discuss Biden’s tax proposals until the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction is on the table. The SALT deduction was previously capped under the Trump administration.

“No SALT, no dice,” Gottheimer said. “It’s got to be responsible and both parties need to be at the table. This can’t just be jammed through without input and consideration from the other side.”

“We need to be careful not to do anything that’s too big or too much in the middle of a pandemic and an economic crisis,” Gottheimer concluded.

Suozzi also agreed, “I’m not voting for any changes in the tax code unless we reinstate SALT as part of the deal.”

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in reference to the opposition, “We know there will be a range of views on how we get there, but we look forward to working with a broad coalition of members on the critical priorities of the president’s plan.” She added, “Creating good jobs and making America more competitive — paid for without any tax increase on people making less than $400,000 a year.”

As for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), she pitched possibly raising corporate taxes and capital gains taxes to bankroll Biden’s infrastructure agenda, along with  (D-PA), who proposed on March 1 a two percent tax on assets’ net value for the wealthiest Americans.

Any House-passed tax bills must have Senate approval. But the Senate is struggling to overcome its own Democrat friction, led by Sen. Joe Manchin, whose position already opposes a corporate tax rate of 28 percent.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/29/moderate-house-democrats-oppose-joe-bidens-potential-infrastructure-tax-hikes/
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The alleged "moderates" are worried about losing their office if they go all in for the Pelosi and Biden great lurch to the left.
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Oh.

The Rodents have been wanting to eliminate Trump's SALT for a while now, since the day he signed the bill into law.

So they get a couple of stooges to "stand up" and demand that the Rodents get what they want or else.

So they won't raise taxes on the people unless they get the taxes raised on the people in other states.

Rodents.
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Oh great. In the spirit of Obama's "shovel ready jobs" millions will be spent putting up and taking down signs announcing the construction projects that never happen. But some folks got jobs erecting and removing signs.

Gasoline up 80 cents per gallon here in three months, and they want to peel more out of people's pockets just to get around.
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Oh.  Can anyone tell me the names of the "moderate" Rodents that voted against the Second Bogus Impeachment of President Trump?

Can't be very "moderate" if they're rabid America haters, can they?
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