No one making less than $400,000 a year would see their taxes go up under the plan. Instead, Ms. Harris is seeking to significantly raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans and large corporations. Congress has previously rejected many of these tax ideas, even when Democrats controlled both chambers.

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      The big difference is who is in Congress. A lot more Democrats there are on board with something like this.

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        Yeah. I’m very cautiously optimistic.

        But as I told my therapist, and as war40k taught me, “hope is the first step on the road to disappointment”