Congress recently acted at the last minute to renew a giant tax subsidy for Wall Street investors and the richest Americans. Sadly, in almost all cases, such dead-of-night maneuvers to increase corporate subsidies and tax breaks for the wealthy are hardly breaking news. But when Democrats and progressives applaud this continued subsidy for the wealthy and Wall Street — in fact when they agree to a “compromise” that allows for the export of U.S. oil to win this corporate subsidy — that is worth our closest attention.