Via Brad Plumer of The New Republic comes this article from the St. Petersburg Times throwing some cold water on the Republican party’s allegation that the Democrats are planning to institute a “light-switch tax” that would cost every American household $3,128 annually. The punchline is this: The Times got in touch with John Reilly, one of the authors of the study the GOP cited as the source of that number, and he said, “It’s wrong in so many ways it’s hard to begin.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=144233