House Democrats’ huge new bill would cut taxes for blue-state millionaires, send government checks to illegal immigrants, and — wait for it — mandate two separate taxpayer-funded studies of diversity in the cannabis industry. This is their effort at coronavirus relief?
House Democrats had a blank slate to propose any vision for the recovery. This draft is all they have done for two months. And they came up with: tax hikes on small businesses, tax cuts for blue-state millionaires, and taxpayer-funded diversity detectives for the pot industry.
The Senate will keep working seriously on this serious pandemic. We wrote the CARES Act. Now we’re back in Washington. We’re holding hearings with experts about the re-opening. We’re monitoring testing. We’re drafting legal protections for healthcare workers and small businesses.
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