Democrats, in a stark shift in messaging, to make big tax-break pitch for middle class:

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12. Read the article. The headline misleadingly only mentions tax breaks for the middle class.

They are proposing a lot more than just tax breaks for the middle class.

Other provisions would provide incentives to companies that give workers a share of corporate profits and invest in job training, through apprenticeship programs or partnerships with community colleges.

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To avoid increasing federal budget deficits, Van Hollen proposes to limit tax breaks for the top 1 percent of earners, who are on track to reap more than $2 trillion over the next decade from favorable rates on capital gains, the mortgage-interest deduction and other “tax expenditures,” according to the Congressional Budget Office.

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He also calls for imposing a 0.1 percent fee on stock trades, an idea under consideration by the European Union. That proposal would raise as much as $800 billion over the next decade, primarily from high-volume traders, Van Hollen said.

That last one is key. That is how we will get the money to create more jobs, improve healthcare, education, etc.

And tax breaks for the middle class is not the Republican platform. Tax breaks for the 1% is what the GOP is all about.