Writing for The New York Times in a piece titled “Are Democrats Becoming a Party of Tax Cuts?“, Andrew Duehren reports the following:

Typically, a bill like the one Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, introduced last month would not make much of a splash.

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The bill was the subject of extensive news coverage even before it was formally introduced, and lawmakers from the party’s moderate and progressive wings, including Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, endorsed it. Democratic policy experts, meanwhile, unleashed such intense and insistent criticism of Mr. Van Hollen’s plan that some of them only half-joked that the party was in the midst of a “wonk revolt.”

The reason for the attention, ire and, admittedly, articles like this one was that Mr. Van Hollen was proposing a broad tax cut. His bill would exempt many working-class Americans from paying any federal income tax, while cutting taxes for individuals making up to $80,500 and married couples earning up to $161,000. Mr. Van Hollen would cover the $1.6 trillion cost of these cuts by raising taxes on people making more than $1 million a year.

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Political scientists are skeptical of the ability of tax cuts to shape voters’ attitudes. That has led some critics of Mr. Van Hollen’s plan to argue that Democrats should focus on copying the catchy branding at the heart of “no tax on tips,” rather than its policy substance.

“It doesn’t achieve the strategic end that politicians expect it to,” Vanessa Williamson, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said of tax cuts. “Democrats never retake the tax issue, and Republicans never stop demanding more tax cuts.”

Then there is the budget. Even before Mr. Van Hollen and other Democrats released their tax cut ideas this year, some of the party’s policy hands had started to game out the fiscal situation they could face if they controlled Washington in 2029.

The text of the proposed legislation is available here.