Sinema took Wall Street money while killing tax on investors

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Hannah Hurley, a Sinema spokesperson, acknowledged the senator shares some of the industry's views on taxation, but rebuffed any suggestion that the donations influenced her thinking.
43% : The firm was condemned by United Nations experts in 2019 who said Blackstone's financial model was responsible for a "financialization of housing" that has driven up rents and home costs, "pushing low-income, and increasingly middle-income people from their homes."
42% : For years, Democrats have promised to raise taxes on such investors, who pay a significantly lower rate on their earnings than ordinary workers.
38% : Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party's longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from private equity professionals, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists whose taxes would have increased under the plan.

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