One group in DC wants to get rich people and companies who have been dodging their tax responsibilities to pay their fair share and then invest that money in providing essential support to average Americans, their families and communities.
Another group wants to help ensure the rich get to keep even more money and pay for it by doing less for you. Another group wants to block any much needed investment in our futures altogether (while helping the rich and powerful even more.)
How is this even a debate? How is this about "progressives" and "moderates" and partisan politics as usual? This is about decency and common sense and our future and our children and the health of our country. It is clear cut...yet that is not coming through in stories about it.
Why is that? Surely the facts are clear to all? It can only be that some have an interest in continuing to keep your tax dollars from helping you, from keeping the powerful from having to shoulder the same burden as you. They are the ones muddying the waters about this debate.
Why? Because that is what they always do. They hide behind DC-speak and create a screen of lies behind which they can continue to game the system, enrich themselves, consign millions more Americans to struggle and uncertain futures.
Let's not let it happen this time. There is "Biden agenda." There is an agenda for you, for the people, for righting past wrongs, for investing in the future. Support that and make sure the politicians who work for you know that is what you expect and demand them to do too.

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This is an administration that is taking the time...at the highest levels...to try to make your life better, to keep you healthy. It is prioritizing you. It has an agenda to do more for you. It is disorienting in this day and age of cynical politics. But it is what we need most.
I really want to underscore this point. The debate in Washington now on infrastructure and Building Back Better is not about Congressional battles or inside baseball politics--it is about whether your tax dollars should go to helping you and your family have better lives.
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