Opinion | Democrats need to pick a small number of priorities, do them well, fund them fully -- and toss the rest of the reconciliation package. By jbarro.
investments that support the operation of core social institutions, and therefore social services and cash payments aren't infrastructure, and you're not going to pull some Jedi mind trick on people by saying otherwise.
But set aside the progressive fetish for new and irritating"X is actually Y" nomenclature and how much it annoys me. The other problem with the"infrastructure" marketing is that it substitutes for describing— something you need if you hope to enforce discipline on party members who stand in the way of its passage.Some liberals seem awfully sure they can oust Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema — who has so far been a key obstacle to the reconciliation plan —.
It's worth looking back at the successful spending initiatives of prior administrations and how they were successful. They were specific. George W. Bush said he would add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare, he signed a law to do that, and then he campaigned on it. Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act did a lot of specific things, but there was an overarching message: This bill will get health insurance to more people, with rules that make it more reliable.
That's all going to need to be financed in some way. Democrats should figure out what they can agree to in terms of drug price costs and tax increases on high earners and capital income — sure to be more modest than the original Biden proposal, but then, this project will also have a more modest price tag.
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