Democrats make historic mistake by raising taxes during a recession

Published August 16, 2022 12:00am ET



Democrats made history last week. Not in a good way.

Going back to the Second World War, Congress has never enacted a tax increase when the economy was in a recession. Yet every single Democrat in the House and the Senate just voted to raise taxes in a recession.

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