Therin Jade

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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?

Random reminder: You don't grow the economy through trickle down economics. You grow the economy by investing in workers: their education, health care, child care, transportation, and job training.
A real “pro-life” movement would ban assault rifles while enacting Medicare for All, paid sick leave, universal childcare, and a living wage.

By the way, a tax of up to 5% on the world’s multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise $1.7 trillion/year.

That would be enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty and fund a global plan to end hunger.

We can't afford NOT to tax the rich.

Everyone was looking to the DC Circuit to resolve a longstanding open question about Guantanamo: do noncitizens held there have due-process rights under the Constitution? But the appeals court instead punted. With my colleague Carol Rosenberg https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/us/politics/guantanamo-appeals-court-due-process.html
Appeals Court Punts on Due Process Rights for Guantánamo Detainees

The case could have resolved an important question about the scope of rights for noncitizens held at the wartime prison.

The New York Times

The CEO-to-worker pay gap is now 399-to-1. In 1965, the ratio was 21-to-1.

Trickle down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down. Hello?

The Supreme Court is off the rails. Some ideas for reform:

1) Enact term limits
2) Enforce ethics standards
3) Require financial disclosures
4) Expand the court
5) Rotate justices

Enough is enough.

“The rubber-stamping of such a project sends a message not just to our generation but humanity as a whole: The future of our planet and the present well-being of frontline communities are being sacrificed for short-term economic gain and political expediency.”

http://www.cnn.com/2023/04/07/opinions/biden-willow-project-climate-kianni-nakate-thunberg/index.html

Why did inequalities of income and wealth begin to widen so dramatically in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and continue widening since? We'll start to explore that very question in Class 1 of my Wealth and Poverty course, now available to the public. https://tinyurl.com/4kwcjfh4
First class! The problem of widening inequality (Wealth & Poverty class 1)

Get ready for the ride.

Robert Reich
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