Thread by @djrothkopf

Lies are one thing, but the GOP takes it to a whole new level. They offer the opposite of the truth that also happens to be exactly the inequality exacerbating policy poison they typically serve up.

https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1445367138336841730

A brief reminder: The Biden package to invest in America and Americans is vitally essential, helps working Americans, red state and blue states without prejudice, and is vital to ensuring US competitiveness, leadership and security for decades to come.

It does not, as proposed by the President, add one dollar to the deficit and actually produces growth that economists predict will generate additional revenues for the government. Therefore it is not and should not be referred to as a "spending bill."

Whatever its size, taken with the bipartisan infrastructure package and the American Rescue Plan passed earlier this year, it represents the largest investment by the US government in the vital engines of our economy in several generations.

In other words, rather than taking middle class tax dollars and redistributing them to rich people and corporations (many of whom pay little or no tax at all), it takes them and reinvests them in ways that help taxpayers achieve security and realize their dreams.

That's why the policies it supports--from investing in infrastructure to protecting the environment to expanding medicare provisions to extending child credits to making more and better education available to more people for free--are supported by big majorities of Americans.

This is a real bi-partisan initiative whether the Beltway GOP that works for the 1% acknowledges it or not--it has the support of big percentages of Republicans, Independents as well as Democrats.

The last big GOP tax cut, under Trump & McConnell, ended up costing over $5 trillion & it primarily (& almost exclusively) benefitted the richest Americans. This one does not raise taxes on anyone who makes under $400K a year and is paid for by the rich paying their fair share.

The last two GOP tax cuts cost well in excess of $8 trillion. This not only costs nothing because it is fully paid for (that's called "fiscal sanity" for senators who want to know) but actually stimulates growth and makes us more secure.

This is, finally, government doing what it is paid to do, what we need it to do, on infrastructure, education, health care, climate, research and development. You will see the results up and down Main Street and in your bank accounts.

Don't buy into the lies. Don't buy into the misrepresentations of what this is by the media and pundits. See it for what it is. See it as bills that make China and our competitors nervous because we are finally doing what they have been doing for years.

See it as the first major initiative to ensure US leadership in the 21st Century. See it as a way to improve the lives of your parents and your children, your spouse and your siblings...and yourself. See it for what it is...and then support it. We need it. And we need it now.