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Enjoy discussing/reading/learning new perspectives to add to the tapestry that is my mind.
#UnitarianUniversalist
Just for context; the evidence on trickle down economics after a three decades real world experiment is that lowering taxes for high earners doesn’t work, but giving more money to low income families does work: largely because poorer people spend money on local services and products: food, housing, etc
This summed up my thoughts in a pithy format.
It seems wrong to reference that people were making $30k a year and supporting a family of four in 1980 without mentioning the pensions. Not 401ks. Not IRAs. Pensions. Real money the company would put into an account for you that would be tied to and grow with the company’s profits, not with the mood of the economy. Almost like they don’t want us to remember watching our family play the lottery of “are they going to fire me before I retire so they can keep the pension.”

Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich, not the poor.

The richest 1% evade $163 billion in taxes every year.

The United States literally has a yacht tax deduction.

Hello?

Back in 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise.

His solution: Fewer government subsidies for fossil fuels and use of renewable energy.

@Incognitim

Thanks for sharing this. I wasn’t aware of Abbott. You are right about racing to the bottom. I wish there was a way to help conservatives see that their politicians are playing on their fears only to ride the high of power and to take every freedom they can grab.

@Incognitim

I haven’t heard the news about changes in Houston. Please tell me they aren’t following Florida.

@MelsGarden

if it is new to you, it’s worth getting excited about! I saw a new to me dragonfly this year and found out it eats mosquitoes. That made me darn happy! Especially when I saw another of the same kind. I told him to keep coming back

@thepoliticalcat @chu

Resources do not translate to time and energy to convert a yard to native plants.

@thepoliticalcat @chu

I would love to do this, but don’t have enough info to do it, or the money/energy. I wish someone would start a business of doing this in my area, but probably city ordinances would keep them out of business.