Frustratingly Good Policy from Orange Man

City Journal
August 26, 2022

What happens when one slams an opponent’s terrible policy, campaigns to repeal it instantly and then watches as it helps taxpayers and the economy? Nothing. Michael Lucci in City Journal describes the limitless but, for once, beneficial hypocrisy and cynicism of Joe Biden and the Democrats in maintaining Trump-era tax cuts.

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