host: a few minutes left with richard rubin.ted to ask you on the tax policy beat how congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez's dress at the met gala with "tax the rich," how did that go over? guest: the energy on the left around taxing the rich is real. we saw it -- dresses aside, we saw it during the 2020 presidential primary with the wealth taxes proposed by senator sanders and senator warren. you see it from democrats in the senate and the house. there is a lot of energy. you've seen it from president biden who is a middle of the party democrat for his tenure in the senate and is pushing ideas that would've been unthinkable a few years ago, certainly back in the 1990's when he was in the senate. i think the party, the democratic party has moved more towards taxing the rich. the challenge they have is the one they have on every issue, which is they have no margin of error in the senate and can only lose three votes in the house. you have senators like joe manchin and kyrsten sinema who are less eager to go in this direction an

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