| This is what it has come to, Catherine Rampell says: Democrats "want to be known as the high-spend, low-tax party." They're too timid to pursue the sort of revenue-raising measures that they not so long ago touted as the best way to pay for their "marquee safety-net-and-climate proposal," she writes. Okay, she actually said Democrats are cowards. They've not only abandoned many of the new taxes on the rich and on corporations that they once promoted, they can't even bring themselves to "roll back the Trump tax cuts, which every single Democratic lawmaker opposed in 2017." "So why have Democrats gotten cold feet? The problem is partly that the Democratic voter base has shifted toward the college-educated, professional class, therefore becoming higher-earning. It's uncomfortable for Democrats to endorse taxes on their own constituents, particularly when those constituents don't realize that they, too, are technically rich."
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