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Editorial | Self-destructive Senate Republicans set the ground for economic and electoral disaster WashTimesOpEd

This effort is no doubt a precursor to what a Republican-controlled Congress, working in tandem with a Republican president, would do with respect to tax reform in 2025.

These four horsemen of the tax apocalypse recently signed onto legislation that would require the Biden administration to study the feasibility of an energy tax that would be collected at the gas pump and in electricity and heating bills. Such a tax would make everything grown, made, moved, heated or cooled more expensive. It would be intensely regressive, falling most heavily on the poor and working class. It would damage the entire economy and every family and business in the United States.

In other words, Mr. Cramer and his three co-conspirators know what they are doing will lead us directly to a nationwide tax on energy. To her credit, Ms. Murkowski at least tried to act clueless: “Whether it’s something that would move us in the direction [of] — whether it’s the price on carbon or the border adjustment … I think it’s going to be important to know a little bit more about of the impact of all this.

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