Undercutting Needed Changes

To the Editor: I am sad to say it, but, it appears that the rich and well-connected are likely to escape a reckoning once again.

When Democrats began pushing for a far-reaching infrastructure package that included desperately needed policy changes, I was encouraged. It seemed the country was finally ready for a course correction. Namely, a tax rate re-set whereby corporations, investors and the wealthy would start paying their fair share for the first time since the Reagan tax cuts, a rollback of the absurd Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) that banned Medicare from negotiating drug prices, and the first positive investments in fighting a changing climate that has left half the country (and world) on fire and the other half flooded.