Biden infrastructure/tax increase megathread

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https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1415387195024752645

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Infrastructure Week is finally over.

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This douche sure loves writing op-eds on sh**t he doesn't support. Just ing tweet and save the time

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Do moderates even care about expanding healthcare? Same sh**tty excuses.

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This is why we don't count our chickens

Indeed, which is why you probably shouldn't be taking a victory lap now, because the most likely outcomes are still that the BIF passes on its own or nothing passes. It's a real demonstration of the Horseshoe Theory when the left is perfectly happy to act as a mirror image of the hated Freedom Caucus, make perfect an enemy of the good, and derail their party's agenda as a result.

You have this completely backwards.

Moderates are the ones threatening to detail the agenda.

So said the Freedom Caucus who were sure that they were going to repeal Obamacare and that those RINOs wanted to keep parts of it around and were derailing their agenda. If they weren't so rigid on that the Republicans may have actually come up with a replacement that could have passed Congress, like they came up with a tax bill, and some laws that even got Democratic votes like the Dodd-Frank rollback and the First Step Act.

One thing the "moderates" and the Freedom Caucus have in common is the absolute revulsion for expanding healthcare.

But hey man, at least we get this completely worthless bipartisan POS bill.

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Obama got slaughtered with his watered down health care bill. Imagine how bad the Dems will do if all they have to show is a watered down infrastructure bill after all the effort which came with getting them elected.

Some "moderates" in this thread are content with achieving as little as possible while in power. What do they even stand for? Is it just a game between blue vs. red for them? Do they fetishize third way politics so much they find doing nothing to be exciting?

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KILL THE BILL!!!

House DEMs should vote against if it comes to floor Tomorrow.

Manchin flips DEM > PUB, so be it....

Manchin is no Doug Jones....

A deal is in sight, right now for around $2T. Assuming there is one, then your choice is the reduced bill + infrastructure or nothing. You'll take nothing from that, just because you didn't get a pony? If Manchin really switches parties, then reconciliation is totally dead, and your choice is infrastructure or nothing. You'll take nothing from that? This is seriously irrational decision making and behavior of a spoiled child. Progressives really are becoming the mirror image of the Freedom Caucus.

If anyone is like the Freedom Caucus, it's "centrists" who hate expanding health care and combatting climate change.

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No more debt! We aren’t at war and Dems don’t want to cut taxes. So no ceiling raising!

30 messages per day. 80% a sock. 100% nothing better to do. Sad.

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https://twitter.com/axios/status/1449015967770677258
This is defiantly not the impression I got from leaks of Sinema and Manchin (apparently he doesn’t like family and medical leave now) delivering ultimatums.

Maybe that’s a desperation play from them, or Biden is BSing.

It seems you've neglected an alternative possibility, that the White House is about to accommodate Sinema and Manchin and progressives are about to have the watered down reconciliation bill jammed down their throats.

I'm sure you're giddy drug prices will go higher

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There's a reason libertarianism has become basically non existent for anyone under 40. Atlas is the only place where you have young people cheering corporate tax cheating.

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Watch a movie or go shopping

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Some of you need to take a break. Jesus.

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