CNN’s Avlon: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s Opposition to Raising Taxes on Corporations Is ‘Puzzling’

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AVLON: "It’s nice to want clean energy and childcare for working families, but typically centrists would want to pay for them. So it's puzzling to hear that Sinema's bottom line seems to be in absolute opposition to raising taxes, especially on corporations. Because that same Kyrsten Sinema used to believe that, quote, asking big corporations and the rich to pay their fair share is common sense, not class warfare. That now-deleted tweet dates from her time in Arizona State Senate when she was already aiming for a seat in Congress. That was a pretty progressive position at the time, but it's now well within the Democratic mainstream. It's also popular, with a Pew survey finding that 66% of Americans support raising taxes on big business. Now, there is always room to negotiate rates and loopholes and the like, but unless you raise revenue to actually pay for the programs senator supports, then you will gut Biden's effort to not add more to the deficit, something that used to be called fiscal responsibility. Which brings us back to the question, what does Senator Sinema want, other than attention?”