It’s probably safe to assume the latest jobs bill will die in the Senate, today or tomorrow, following the latest in a never-ending series of Republican filibusters. But it’s worth clarifying the nature of the choice facing lawmakers.
On
the table is a plan that would save or create hundreds of thousands of
jobs through state aid, boosting teachers, police officers, and
firefighters. It would be paid for, not through the kind of deficit
financing Republicans pushed in the Bush era, but with a 0.5% surtax on
millionaires and billionaires.
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