“It speaks to what makes so many of us proud to be Democrats,” he said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “It speaks to a vision that goes back to a New Deal understanding of what working people deserve,” referencing the era of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the label given his domestic policies.
“And I’ll tell you that for too long that kind of politics, you can only find it in history books, and we need to bring it back to the present day.”
The Tax Penalty was avoidable by all by simply checking a box on your tax filing. It was purely voluntary.
If you wanted a better bill then you may be happy to hear the DNC had one which didn’t pass because they lacked the votes: Joe Leiberman and every Republican refused to let it pass.