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This is a new version of the age-old income redistribution game of taxing people too much but then trying to appease them with tax credits or one-time cash payments.

It’s time to once again embrace the values — inclusiveness, equity, dignity for all — that too many Democrats have expeditiously dropped to appease MAGA.

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Then imagine a Congress seated in January 2027 with even more lawmakers guaranteed reelection and concerned mainly with appeasing their party’s activist base.

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Jordan believed poetry had the power to teach and educate, and she did not shy away from difficult word choices to appease the working class.

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South Korea thought it had appeased its powerful friend.

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