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Millions of savings accounts for children seeded with $500 each. Delinquent water bills wiped away. Checks cut to thousands of small businesses.
The rapid-fire rollout this week of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s state budget proposal lays out a vision of expansive government aid a plan turbocharged by the COVID stimulus bill championed by President Biden.
The California governor is not alone in opening the spending spigots. With a total of $350 billion in federal stimulus flowing to state and community coffers, governors, legislators and local politicians across the country are facing an unprecedented opportunity to advance their policy priorities and reap the political benefit.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, the leading Senate GOP negotiator, said the talk was a positive step.
“The attitude that the president had in the Oval Office with us was very supportive, very much desirous of striking a deal,” Ms. Capito said.
In addition to hiking taxes, the president wants to beef up the IRS to go after tax cheats and suggested it’s an idea he can see Republicans supporting.
He said figuring out how to close the tax gap through stepped-up enforcement could generate between $700 billion and $1.3 trillion in revenues for the federal government
“Let’s say it’s somewhere in between. That’s a trillion dollars. I’m confident they would go for that,” the president told MSNBC this week.
Building on CBO’s Transparency Progress: Recommendations for Further Reform
As Nan Swift, former Senate Budget Committee staffer an an alumnus of National Taxpayers Union, wrote at the R Street Institute’s blog, “Deteriorating trust in the CBO would call all of its work into question, making it difficult to get a real sense of legislative consequences for everyone, both on and off the Hill.”
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