Biden betting Bessemer Amazon union could help bring back America’s middle class
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
Posted Mar 12, 2021
Activists in New York City came out to show their support on Feb. 27, 2021, for the approximately 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, who will vote by mail on whether to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). The move would make them the first union at an Amazon facility in the country. (Ron Adar/SOPA Images via Zuma Press/TNS)TNS
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By Will Bunch The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
In Bessemer, Alabama, on a morning in 1983, I saw America’s future even if I was utterly clueless about it at the time. I was a cub reporter for the Birmingham News, ambushed by a breathless editor when I walked into the newsroom. He said the second-richest man in the world as he’d just read in The Wall Street Journal was in our area and I needed to rac
i ve never seen a more blatant attempt at a corporate welfare bill than this bill. they are literally taking money out of the hands of families in the middle class and putting it into the hands of the wealthiest millionaires and billionaires in society today. there is also action on the house side of the capital, g.o.p. leaders will ask raking republicans as evening where they stand on the tax reform package to see if they can pass tax reform on the house for this week. i think we re going to get this done, there can be three principles that guide this policy, will it simple by the code and will it be conducive to the economic growth. if the answer to those questions are yes, we should be for it. one issue making a lot of northeastern republicans from high tax states nervous is the state and local tax deduction issue. it is scaled back in the house, it is eliminated in the senate and a lot of those moderate republicans want assurances from
step closer to fulfilling inthaa goal. it is the biggest day so far for what the more and are more republicans see as a do or die push on tax reform. just minutes ago on capitol hill, senate republicans going behind closed doors for a briefing on their version of tax reform. a complication for a party that readily admits now it must pass sweeping tax cuts if it hopes to stay in power. we now have two sets of math, two sets of projections, two set of problems some say that need to be solved before either bill hits the floor. not helping? president trump. remember back during the obamacare debate when he call the house bill mean? some say he is undercutting republicans again. the president tipped his hand according to the wall street journal telling democrats on the other end of the line ignore the house debate. he promised them the senate plan, quote, you will like it a whole lot more. another hiccup? messaging, not just on capitol hill. take for example this blast from the past phr
and he ran on passing a tax plantar getted at middle class families. and what strikes me, the tax bill that the house came out with is that it s so heavily focused on corporate tax relief, and i think when people go to the polls and vote on this, they are asking themselves how did this impact me. and corporate tax relief i don t think strikes people as something that will impact them personally. and that seems to me to be the major flaw with the house bill when republicans are talking about we need to get this done in order to, you know, have it help us with the polls in 2018. this bill is not popular. and so it s unclear to me if that is actually going to be true at the polls in 2018 for republicans if it does pass. and listen to the speaker on fox news. he has to manage the sheep in the house. he would want a different tax plan, but he is the speaker of the house, he thinks this is the best that he can get through. but among those unhappy, some conservatives think we re in the
majority, at least the first version of this should be bigger and bolder. as speaker, why not go to broke? make its as conservative as possible and see how much you get through. i m very pleased with this product in that is far more bold tax reform than ronald reagan did. these are deeper and bigger. so i mean, mitch mcconnell and paul ryan want us to forget the rest of 2017 and forget the problems inside the republican party, but they pop out frequently in this debate. when the chairman of the current when mr. brady came out and sort of started talking about the house proposal, he couldn t help himself. he threw in a couple knocks at the senate. this is not a united party. i see a lot of comments includinging from some folks who used to be in the trump white house, i don t understand why this is so hard. it s a fundamental misunderstanding of where their party is today and where the schisms are. they proposed a bunch of things that the remaininging northeastern republicans bal