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In reply to the discussion: Sanders grapples with missed opportunity in Democrats' economic plan [View all]TexasTowelie
(111,938 posts)6. If that were true, why wasn't he involved in the discussions between Schumer and Manchin?
Has there ever been any other time when the chair of the Senate Budget Committee was not part of the negotiations on a budget bill?
Bernie will get to see the bill through the Budget Committee and offer amendments. However, if he makes too many tweaks then he risks losing Manchin and Sinema in the process and killing the bill. Thus nothing has changed, Bernie doesn't have any more leverage now than he did previously.
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Sanders grapples with missed opportunity in Democrats' economic plan [View all]
Uncle Joe
Aug 2022
OP
Logical conclusion, those are the primary beneficiaries which you don't dispute.
Uncle Joe
Aug 2022
#14
Buybacks are not mandatory and thus not universal, taxes on micro-transactions pretty much are.
Uncle Joe
Aug 2022
#18
If that were true, why wasn't he involved in the discussions between Schumer and Manchin?
TexasTowelie
Aug 2022
#6
I asked first, but I'll answer you anyway even though you ignored my questions.
TexasTowelie
Aug 2022
#8
The video in the OP offers even more substance in regards to Bernie's position on the issue. n/t
Uncle Joe
Aug 2022
#13
Biden's Build Back Better Plan Will 'Ease' Inflation, 15 Nobel Prize Economists Say
Uncle Joe
Aug 2022
#26
Those economists said that a year ago. The economic outlook and conditions are very different now.
lapucelle
Aug 2022
#27
We're going to get this now and then after November, when we have more reps and Senator
onecaliberal
Aug 2022
#19
To my mind his 30 years in DC appear as almost nothing but failed opportunities
Hortensis
Aug 2022
#34