One proposal with few visible opponents among the voting public but never seems to get anywhere in Congress:
A la carte cable.
There are conservatives who would love to stop paying MSNBC every month and liberals who would love to stop paying for Fox; people who wonder why their bill includes a massive payment to some billionaire team owners for a local sports network they never watch, and on and on.
You can cut the cord, but streaming services don't yet offer rifle shot a la carte subscriptions to each of the channels you want.
This is great for cable companies and arguably for a lot of these networks. But a typical cable package is either a tiny sliver of channels or 300-1000 channels you'll never watch. A la carte? Fuggedaboutit.
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Apparently a senator getting his news from Fox News ... chyrons? That is if I'm reading this tweet correctly. Not 💯% sure.
Also, I think if Google had been named Goggle we still would all be using it and we'd all be Goggling everything. "What have you Goggled today" and so on.
Biden targets a tax break for rich real estate investors that allows them to avoid ever paying capital gains tax bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Folks may not know this, but real estate investors can often flip their profits into new properties without paying tax through this tax break. And when they die, all their accumulated cap gains winnings die with them.
So Biden would nix the tax break on real estate gains above $500K, and then, when you die, unrealized cap gains >$1M would be taxed.
Biden tax plan expands marriage penalty for some wealthier two-income couples on combined income north of $509K bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Admin says tax hike will hit ~1% highest earning taxpayers + corps. The big cap gains hike is limited to taxpayers with income exceeding $1M/Year - about 0.3% of taxpayers.
There's an existing marriage penalty for some very high-income couples written into Trump's tax law.
This viral tweet is fake. Senator Ernst's poster had "TAX INCREASE" not "SEX BLIMPS" on her Liberal Fantasy Island poster. Several of the other items are doctored too.
Biden wanted a massive COVID relief package; it was a selling point in the GA Senate races. He proposed massive infrastructure, carbon, health, etc plans.
They were on his campaign website.
He telegraphed tax hikes on people making >$400K and corporations.