Build Back Better Than Nothing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The Manchin-Schumer deal includes roughly $370 billion in energy and climate spending, $300 billion in deficit reduction, three years of subsidies for Affordable Care Act premiums, prescription drug reform and significant tax changes.
50% : NYT ("Manchin, in Reversal, Agrees to Quick Action on Climate and Tax Plan") comes up with different numbers:The package would set aside $369 billion for climate and energy proposals, the most ambitious climate action ever taken by Congress, and raise an estimated $451 billion in new tax revenue over a decade, while cutting federal spending on prescription drugs by $288 billion, according to a summary circulated Wednesday evening.
45% : At the same time, the deduction (like the home mortgage deduction, the ability to shelter money in college investment accounts from taxes, and others) amounts to a subsidy for the relatively well-off.
38% : Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer looked at loggerheads after their talks on a sweeping climate, tax and health care bill ran aground nearly two weeks ago.

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