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This is just flagrantly untrue. Trumps SOTU addresses we’re almost entirely about his personal foreign relationships with North Korea, Mexico, his takes on various Mexican gangs, “global freeloaders”, warning against “the call to adopt socialism”, how much of ISIS he wiped out, etc.
This is deeply different from Joe Biden going up and saying “hey maybe Billionares shouldn’t pay 8% in taxes, maybe 25% would be a good benchmark” and “hey maybe we should give new home buyers a few hundred bucks a month” which are real and substantiate new initiatives and not just masturbatory remarks about how much other people suck
But how is Joe Biden saying "billionaires should pay more taxes" any different from when Obama said it?
I hope I'm proved wrong, but I expect the same results: no legislation, no policy change, only rhetoric.
You're woefully ignorant of how the legislative process works. Hint: it certainly isn't by fiat.
Also, Biden's policy has long been lowering taxes on middle-class earners.
I understand the president is not a dictator, there's no expectation of fiat rule here.
I also understand that the SOTU is a sales pitch, not a serious legislative agenda.
I do appreciate the tacit admission of his policy targets.
Alas, even though you now claim to understand Biden's hands are legislatively tied, he has since become unserious.
You really are doing some work moving that target.
There is a huge difference between a sales pitch and a policy target, you seem to be confusing the two.
A sales pitch is just rhetoric and can often be disingenuous.
I see no reason to suggest that economic populism will become a serious part of the Biden policy agenda.
what do you mean? you don't mean that he had some of the same platform promises in 2020 and didn't come through, right?
https://www.politico.com/2020-election/candidates-views-on-the-issues/joe-biden/
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