Michael R. Strain, Columnist

Raise Taxes on the Middle Class Before It's Too Late

Even without the Democrats’ big spending plans, the government has little choice but to hit up the mother lode of taxpayers.

October 28, 2019 at 11:00 AM UTC

By Michael R. Strain

Michael R. Strain is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is director of economic policy studies and Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of “The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It).”

If taxpayers want it, they have to pay for it.
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Elizabeth Warren “has a plan for that.” Except, that is, for financing Medicare for All.

The Democratic presidential candidate has been taking heat for refusing to say whether she would raise taxes on the middle class to pay for her health-care ambitions. But we don’t have to wait to know the bottom line: Overall, the middle class will have to pay more.