The battle shifts to implementation, where success will be won or lost.
Infrastructure, Housing & Transportation
Posted inBuilding Back America
Manchin Could Score Carbon Capture Subsidies to Prop Up Coal
In September, Joe Manchin was told carbon capture would need heavy federal subsidies to keep coal running in West Virginia. Now, a supercharged tax credit is in Build Back Better.
Posted inTAP
SALT in the Democrats’ Wounds
Today on TAP: Why are Democrats cutting taxes for the rich, at the expense of building back better?
Posted inBuilding Back America
Manchin’s Cherry-Picking of Budget Estimates
He has deficit concerns with the Build Back Better Act. But the same analysts he cites think his bipartisan infrastructure bill is even worse for the deficit.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Media Got the Billionaires Income Tax Wrong
Despite the media framing, a tax on billionaires’ investment income is not novel, unworkable, unconstitutional, or divisive.
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Drug Price/Tax Break Quid Pro Quo
Democrats in high-tax states cut a deal on the Build Back Better Act.
Posted inTAP
Memo to Media: Stop Calling Manchin et al. ‘Moderates’
Today on TAP: Being more swayed by big-money contributions and an anti-mother bias are far better descriptors.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Dooming Blue States to Health Care Limbo
The Build Back Better Act will create enough uncertainty in health care to make it impossible for states to improve their systems.
Posted inBuilding Back America
What You Might Have Missed in the Build Back Better Bill
The bill is teeming with hundreds of programs, which in some cases crowded out the bigger priorities.
Posted inTAP
World’s Biggest Half-Full, Half-Empty Glass
Today on TAP: Biden’s bill is historically great and bitterly disappointing.
