WaPo’s Knox: SALT Deduction Will ‘Chiefly Go to the Rich’ and It’s One of the Largest Pieces of Biden’s Build Back Better Plan

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KNOX: "Nancy Pelosi is rewarding the progressives by having a vote on this at all, she's rewarding the moderates by having things like the S.A.L.T. provision in there, and then she's kicking it all over to the Senate and saying, 'Godspeed, Chuck Schumer.' You know, if you watch the Republican messaging on this, Bernie has a point about it being bad politics. Republicans have seized on the fact that this is one of the largest — this tax reduction would chiefly go to the rich and it’s one of the largest pieces of this legislation. If you’re want to hear the Republican messaging, it's pretty clear. They think it’s great to be able to say the Democrats’ proposal was going to cut taxes on all these wealthy coastal millionaires. I don’t know that they junk it, because there was an effort actually led by Bernie Sanders and Senator Menendez to change the S.A.L.T. provision. I think changing it is more likely. The parental leave and the electric car staff, I think, is a lot phonier."