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The Democrats' Low-Energy Tax Plan
The party vowed to fight to undo the Republican tax law. Now it would rather fix infrastructure.
Where's the beef?
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Democrats made a passionate and extended case against the tax bill President Donald Trump signed in December. The Senate Democrats’ new tax-and-infrastructure plan walks away from that case in nearly every particular.
The proposal undoes parts of the new tax law in order to fund increased infrastructure spending. But it revises the tax law in ways that fit poorly with the arguments Democrats were making in the very recent past.