Upscale liberals are developing class consciousness

Upscale liberals are developing class consciousness

Chris Van Hollen and Cory Booker both recently introduced proposals to raise taxes on the very rich in order to finance broad-based tax cuts for the rest of the country. The proposals differ considerably in their details (the Van Hollen version is considerably more fiscally responsible and less regressive), but neither senator has said anything about how their proposals fit in the jigsaw puzzle of Democratic Party prioritization. As I noted rece…