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So she's just not supposed to start talking about ideas?

• AnimalMuppet 8y ago
  Maybe it would be more useful to talk about ideas that have an actual chance of being enacted.
  • bryanlarsen 8y ago
    She's just reframing the debate. Once people realize how much support there is for a 70% tax bracket at the top, they'll be happy if it's "only" 50%.
    • AnimalMuppet 8y ago
      Hmm. When you put it that way, I seem to recall a certain President Clinton doing something similar, and he was a pretty shrewd politician. Even if you don't scare the top earners into going along, you at least challenge the default of leaving things as they are, and you challenge it in the direction you (the politician) want to go.