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Mar 12, 2021 11 tweets 4 min read
The new federal COVID relief law contains provisions that would essentially call a three-year truce in new state corporate welfare programs. As then-VP @JoeBiden famously said about the Affordable Care Act, "this is a big f**king deal." Quick thread: The American Rescue Plan Act creates a $220 billion Coronavirus State Recovery Fund. To share in this money, states can't "directly or indirectly" fund new tax cuts with it. That specifically includes "a rebate, a deduction, a credit or otherwise." congress.gov/bill/117th-con…