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Nancy Pelosi calls the bill “monumental, brazen theft from the American middle class,” and that’s one of her more restrained comments. Per Pelosi, the bill is an affront to the Founding Fathers, veterans, children, and all that is good and true in America life.
She constantly charges that the bill “raises taxes on 86 million middle-class households,” and “hands a breathtaking 83 percent of its benefits to the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.”
This is a rhetorically potent line of attack that the polling suggest has made considerable headway. It just isn’t remotely honest. Far from “pillaging the American middle class,” the Republican bill is, every factual analysis agrees, an across-the-board tax cut.
Pelosi’s seemingly darning factoids come from the year 2027, an odd date to focus on, since it’s not when the bill goes into effect, but when part of it lapses. In 10 years, many of the tax cuts on the individual side expire. This means that the middle-class tax cuts go away, which Pelosi portrays as a Republican plot to loot the middle class.
It’s a very strange argument against passing a bill to say horrible things will happen once the legislation no longer fully applies. This is more logically a case for extending the bill than for blocking it. Indeed, it is almost certain that the middle-class provisions would eventually be preserved. (This is one reason Republicans were willing to let the individual tax cuts sunset and not the corporate tax cuts.)
Anybody want to field her reasoning?
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