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A new podcast for your ears

Highlands Bunker - E01 The production values kick ass. NSFW - "...people are going to get called the fuck out." #Proofofconcept #Kathyjennings #Johncarney #Kensimpler #DEGOPdead #Kevinhensley #Robarlett #Scottwalker #Mattalbright #insidebaseball…

Moscow Won

Saying that Trump "lost" and Democrats "won" is a misreading of this. We all lost when we elected a carnival barker controlled by Moscow to be President. We continue to…

You’d have to be as dumb as a John Carney to oppose this tax increase

At long last...we now live in a country where continuing to think that smash and grab tax cuts are "good for the economy" identifies you as a full-blown idiot.
Elizabeth Warren is rolling out a “wealth tax” as a proposal to address the Gilded Age-levels of economic inequality currently blighting our futures (The Post):
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will propose a new “wealth tax” on Americans with more than $50 million in assets, according to an economist advising her on the plan, as Democratic leaders vie for increasingly aggressive solutions to the nation’s soaring wealth inequality. Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, two left-leaning economists at the University of California, Berkeley, have been advising Warren on a proposal to levy a 2 percent wealth tax on Americans with assets above $50 million, as well as a 3 percent wealth tax on those who have more than $1 billion, according to Saez. The wealth tax would raise $2.75 trillion over a ten-year period from about 75,000 families, or less than 0.1 percent of U.S. households, Saez said.
Good for her. My only quibble is that it’s too small. The political ground has shifted on taxation. People recognized Trump’s tax cut for what it was — another plutocrat smash-and-grab. Donors loved it, but voters didn’t.  Via Baloon Juice

Bye Bye Biden

You can stop worrying that Joe Biden will clutter the Democratic presidential primary ballot. The New York Times reports that Biden was paid $200,000 for a speech supporting a Michigan…

I love Pete Buttigieg

You’d be forgiven for not knowing, or at least not knowing how to pronounce, Pete Buttigieg’s last name (it’s boot-uh-judge). His political experience to date includes two terms as mayor…