Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and a retinue of other Democratic Party notables love the idea of high taxes. For them, soaking the rich is the way forward. And for any self-respecting Establishment Republican, raising tax rates is crazytalk unworthy of taking seriously. There's nothing to see here in the appeal it seems to have for large numbers of Americans! Tax cuts for the wealthy! Trickle down will save us! These solutions that worked for Ronald Reagan are good enough for me! And, besides, John F. Kennedy cut taxes, too!
We've seen this movie more times than we've seen the “Wizard of Oz.” But the Republican Party continues to screen it expecting a different ending.
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