{"id":2471,"date":"2021-11-18T16:52:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2021-11-18T16:52:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:52:41","slug":"sanders-and-pelosi-are-locked-in-a-dispute-over-a-tax-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/2021\/11\/18\/sanders-and-pelosi-are-locked-in-a-dispute-over-a-tax-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders and Pelosi are locked in a dispute over a tax cut!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California defended a measure to lift the amount of state and local taxes (SALT) that people can deduct from their federal tax bills to $80,000 from $10,000 through 2026. The $10,000 limit was imposed under President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2017 tax law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t about who gets a tax cut, it&#8217;s about which states get the revenue they need in order to meet the needs of the people,&#8221; she said at her weekly press conference. &#8220;That is a fight that I will continue to make.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She claimed that tax cuts for the rich &#8220;isn&#8217;t the result&#8221; of the House bill. But experts\u00a0say lifting the SALT cap would overwhelmingly benefit richer Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont pushed back against Pelosi, saying &#8220;I think it&#8217;s bad politics, it&#8217;s bad policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Bottom line, We need to help the middle class, not the 1%,&#8221; he told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkraju\/status\/1461387173366845441?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN&#8217;s Manu Raju.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their dispute comes as Democrats become increasingly anxious with the largest slice of Biden&#8217;s social spending bill: a tax cut for rich Americans residing in high-tax, predominantly blue states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California defended a measure to lift the amount of state and local taxes (SALT) that people can deduct from their federal tax bills to $80,000 from $10,000 through 2026. The $10,000 limit was imposed under President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2017 tax law. This isn&#8217;t about who gets a tax cut, it&#8217;s about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[169,2863,2864],"class_list":{"0":"post-2471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-bernie-sanders","9":"tag-nancy-pelosi","10":"tag-tax-cuts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}