From the desk of Rep. Antonio Delgado (letter dated Nov. 4, 2021):
"You will be pleased to know that I am a cosponsor of the SALT Deductibility Act (H.R. 188), bipartisan legislation that would eliminate the harmful cap on state and local tax deductions. This bill would directly benefit our community, as almost one-third of residents in our District claim SALT deductions. ... Working families already pay enough in taxes: our nation's tax code should not prioritize corporations and the ultra-wealthy, but instead those who need it most. That's why I am committed to simplifying the tax code by closing loopholes that serve only the wealthiest Americans and cracking down on corporations that keep their profits overseas."
-->However an article by the Brookings Institute, a non partisan think tank, makes it clear that:
-Lifting the cap on the SALT deduction would massively favor the rich, with most of the benefit going to the top one percent
-Lifting the cap would in fact give almost three times as much, as a share of the cut, to the top one percent as the TCJA cuts did as a whole
-Even with the cap, the SALT deduction remains pro-rich, with around three-quarters of the benefit going to families in the top fifth of the income distribution
Antonio, your letter then is just anther big fib, is it not? Doesn't that make you a Wall Street funded fake progressive, eager to give back ... to the millionaires and billionaires? As long as the Democrats elect fake candidates with massive corporate ties, they are going to lose and lose big. Think Hillary Clinton and Terry McAuliffe! Maybe the next to go down in defeat will be our very own Antonio Delgado.
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Common Dreams:
"The U.S. House on Friday night passed a bipartisan physical infrastructure bill but didn't bring the Build Back Better Act to the floor—sending just one half of President Joe Biden's two-pronged economic agenda to the White House, with only a pledge that conservative House Democrats will vote for the party's broader social infrastructure and climate package at a later date.
That wasn't the plan on Friday morning. When the day started, Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said they wanted House Democrats to pass both parts of the president's legislative agenda: the Build Back Better Act (BBB), which would invest $1.75 trillion over 10 years to strengthen climate action and the welfare state; and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework (BIF), a fossil fuel-friendly proposal to upgrade the nation's roads, bridges, and ports that was approved by the U.S. Senate in August.
Due to the intransigence of a few right-wing House Democrats who made last-minute demands for additional fiscal information that could take weeks to obtain, and the acquiescence of Pelosi and Biden, a planned floor vote on BBB was shelved and reduced to a 'rule for consideration,' "
-->How left is taken down once more by the corporate Democrats. It is not the story that most mainstream media wants to talk about. The more progressive programs that benefit working people are left hanging: clean energy, reforming the police and criminal justice system, relief for energy bills, universal and free preschool, affordable care for the elderly, expanded child tax credit for low income families, rebates on clean energy investment, reduced drug costs, reduced premiums for healthcare, expanding medicare to cover hearing aids, investments in affordable housing, extended income credits for low wage workers, affordable higher education, and a reform the tax system so that huge corporations and filth rich citizens pay their fair share of taxes. All this is left hanging. What US media is telling this sad story?
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Common Dreams:
"Corporate Democratic So-Called 'Centrists' Lost These Races, But They'll Never Admit It. Instead of representing a party that had scored some wins for working people, Democratic candidates ran as members of a party that had squabbled for ten months and accomplished little while controlling all three branches of the federal government.
Terry McAuliffe ran Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2021, but the Virginia voters who went for Clinton in 2016 weren’t buying it this time around. McAuliffe’s attempt to make the election a referendum on Donald Trump was a failure since Trump wasn’t on the ballot. After ten months of Democratic government in Washington, voters saw little action that improved their lives.
Vague platitudes and promises weren’t enough to carry the day, not in a time of economic crisis and in the absence of real achievement in Washington."
-->Democrats are losers, but well paid ones. They are part of the corporate charade, all except the "Squad" which may be rethinking their allegiance to this phony party.
