According to POLITICO and numerous other news outlets, top White House advisors remain convinced that pushing policies to make wealthy individuals and corporations start “paying their fair share” is a winning strategy in its own right, and not just a means of paying for other programs:

With that in mind, the Democratic pollsters John Anzalone and Matt Hogan are urging the party’s candidates to focus on forcing the rich and corporations to pay more in taxes.

Just a few problems with that prescription.  First, successful Americans already pay their fair share.  According to the IRS, the top 50 percent of …

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When the Build Back Better Act (BBB) made its way to the Senate last year, an odd trend emerged: Every time West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin would make a clear statement regarding his position on the BBB, the Capitol Hill press corps would respond by ignoring him.

This began last September, when Sen. Manchin made public a signed agreement with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer outlining Manchin’s position:

The West Virginia senator has been distributing the document to Democratic colleagues and leaders in recent days to underscore that he has outlined his red lines on President Joe Biden’s jobs and families …

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Americans are correctly alarmed by the recent spike in prices, while Senator Manchin has made rising prices a key rationale for his opposition to the massive Build Back Better Act (BBB).  Both believe the BBB, particularly the tax hikes, will drive up prices even further.

President Biden and others, on the other hand, push back on the idea that the BBB will drive up prices.  As the President said in his press conference the other day:

My Build Back Better plan cuts the price of drugs…it cuts the cost of elder care and it will do all of this without raising …

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Today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report showed inflation surging at its fastest pace in 40 years with the consumer price index increasing 7 percent year over year.  Despite these rising prices, lawmakers and the White House are still working to pass the multi-trillion-dollar tax hikes included in the Build Back Better Act.

In response, over 90 trade associations today called on Congress to end efforts to pass Build Back Better and shift its focus to address the pressing issues confronting American families and businesses – rising prices, labor shortages and supply chain disruptions. As the letter reads:

Today’s Consumer Price …

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The Build Back Better (BBB) bill would have harmed family businesses, cost jobs, and accelerated the economic consolidation already taking place in this country.  It would have been a negative for those states and communities that rely on family businesses as the core of their economies and their social institutions. That’s why S-Corp and the Main Street Employers coalition have been fighting it for the past year.

And now it’s dead – or at least on life support.  Senator Joe Manchin announced this morning on Fox News that he would vote “no” on the BBB.  As he told Bret Baier:

If …

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