The VP Debate Demonstrated Democrats’ Fear of Taxes

Jeremy Mele
6 min readOct 8, 2020

The Vice Presidential Debate highlighted a particular advantage that Republicans have over their liberal Democratic rivals, which is that, in many ways, the latter have agreed to argue within a framework set by the former. Nowhere can this better be seen than on the issue of taxes. Again and again, Mike Pence hammered Kamala Harris on the supposed vast tax increases that a Biden-Harris administration…

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Jeremy Mele

Having survived grad school, I’ve decided that I need to keep writing or risk wasting $[redacted] on a philosophy degree of all things.