As much as some Democrats’ tax-the-rich stunts offend the senses and expose hypocrisies, the actual policy details of the tax-and-spend plans emerging on Capitol Hill matter more. Pennsylvania families and taxpayers should be far more concerned that the proposal making its way through Congress would be an unprecedented expansion of government spending, amounting to massive new federal deficits at a time of worrying inflation. Is now really the right time to double down on tax-and-spend policies that have pervaded Washington, D.C. for years? The answer from most Pennsylvanians is a resounding “no.”
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