Josh Gottheimer represents the 13th-wealthiest Congressional district in the country. Commuting distance from Wall Street, Gottheimer’s New Jersey district has a median household income above $110,000, according to the U.S. census.

That makes it understandable that his priority in the Democrats’ massive tax-and-spend bill is a tax cut that goes almost entirely to rich people. What’s baffling is Gottheimer’s yearslong campaign to demonize poor people as moochers and attack the states that allow poor people to live there.

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