What a great platform going into the 2018 midterms: “vote for us! We’ll raise your taxes!”
(The Hill) Democrats are vowing to undo parts of the GOP’s tax-code overhaul if they win back control of the House in November, hoping President Trump’s first major domestic achievement will be a liability for the Republicans in the midterm elections.
The effort is reminiscent of the Republicans’ long-drawn campaign to hammer away at the Affordable Care Act and turn President Obama’s signature health-care expansion into a down-ballot albatross for the Democrats — an effort that helped the Republicans retake the House with sweeping election victories in 2010.
“We should repeal it and I think we should offer an alternative tax plan, which is we’re going to provide the tax relief to the middle class and the working class,†said Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.).
Democratic leaders are encouraging their troops to stage district-based tax-reform “teach-ins†designed to convince voters “what this tax scam means to families,†in the words of the direct appeal from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
So, the party of loving every type of tax increase, one which instituted lots of little tax increases through Obamacare, which would love a carbon tax, which institutes taxes on “sugary drinks”, wants to take away a tax that gives more money to middle and lower class citizens, and has seen company after company give employees more money in the form of stock, 401K ventures, bonuses, and/or actual raises? That’s a winning formula!
Republicans are ready to hammer Democrats for vowing to repeal much of the tax law, arguing their opponents would be foolish to run on a message of raising taxes.
“I would welcome Democrats running for election based on, ‘Let us slow down the American economy, raise taxes and make sure people’s paychecks are stagnant for another decade,’ †House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) told reporters earlier this week.
“That would be a terrible campaign theme for them to run on, but I welcome them to do it,†he said.
They should go for it. Perhaps they can run some commercials talking about how $1,000 is just crumbs, as Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly stated. The article continues that the Democrats and their interest groups think this is all a winning combination, which seems to be more of a “soak the rich” scheme, as usual.
