The situation in Florida - the authoritarian takeover of education, the escalating reactionary campaign to stifle, censor, and ban any dissent from the white nationalist worldview - is a proper democratic emergency.
So far, the response has been utterly inadequate.
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Most of our hires have been from referrals: The people we have talk with the good people they know.
Our management learned *the hard way*, several years ago, that layoffs cause current employees to *STOP* trying to pull others in. It's a *LONG* road to recover from that!
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Andrew Carnegie, once one of America's richest, supported heavy inheritance taxes as a means to return "the people's share" upon one's death. In 1906, he wrote in "The Gospel of Wealth -II" that:
"Where wealth accrues honorably, the people are always silent partners."¹
So, he supported your suggestion for taxes on billionaires with the aim of "returning the bulk of their wealth to the society that made them rich in the first place."
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