Biden’s proposals to raise taxes on the wealthy include raising the top individual tax rate, raising capital gains tax rates for high-income households, and taxing capital gains at death.
Moderate Democrats aren’t fans of a wealth tax, and it’s unclear how quickly any tax increases on the wealthy will be enacted.
The Hill’s Scott Wong and I have more here on Democrats’ reaction to the ProPublica report.
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THE YAY-SAYERS: Alright, alright, alright, your Huddle host and Mel have a tentative, partial whip list of GOP members we believe will vote in favor of the Jan. 6 commission. It isn’t comprehensive some members wouldn’t say how they are voting. Others said on the eve of the vote that they aren’t sure and want to further review the terms of the agreement. But here is what we found:
Fears about growing incivility and polarization in American politics have been climbing for a generation. But the concern has reached a different order of intensity since the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, when members of Congress literally feared for their lives.
Greene’s encounters with some of her Democratic colleagues, along with a confrontation between a Greene staffer and Rep. Eric Swalwell
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In an exchange witnessed by The Hill’s Scott Wong on Friday morning, a Greene staffer challenged Swalwell over the Democrat wearing a mask. Swalwell retorted, “You don’t tell me what to f -ing do.”
Soon afterward on Twitter, Swalwell said Greene’s aide had attempted to bully him, adding, “I told the bully what I thought of his order. Predictably, he went speechless. I regret I wasn’t more explicit.”
A member of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s staff casually mentioned to known unstable person and flatulent leprechaun Eric Swalwell that he could take his mask off per the order of Swalwell’s party leader, President Joe Biden. In response, Swalwell got in the staffers face for a SCREAMING LUNATIC RAGE FIT, because that’s totally normal.
The Hill’s Scott Wong witnessed and reported it last night. Swalwell responded on Twitter, and staffer Nick Dyer, who is Communications Director for MTG, gave a statement to Gateway Pundit.
Let’s go through these in order of truthfulness, starting with Dyer.
“At the top of the steps, I cordially and jovially said ‘Congressman, Biden said you can take off your mask’ as we walked by. I did not yell. I did not tell him to take his mask off,” Dyer explained. “He then chased me inside, aggressively leaned into me, got inches from my face and said ‘Don’t tell me what to f-cking do.’ It was actual verbal assault with an attempt at phy
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