Archive for January, 2019
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An Understander’s Guide to Gov. Carney’s Budget
The budget released by Gov. John Carney doesn’t officially mean a thing, because the General Assembly’s Joint Finance Committee puts together the state’s real budget, starting with hearings next Tuesday. But the JFC has to start somewhere, and that somewhere is Carney’s proposal. Matt Bittle of the Delaware State News has an accessible rundown along […]
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 lose every day in every way. President Trump agreed on Friday to a short-term deal to reopen the government, reversing himself once again after forcing […]
Stone talks tough. He will roll over on Trump when the time comes.
They have the guy cold. Stone can talk tough all he wants now, and play the role of the darling to wingnuts everywhere. In court, facing real jail time, he will plead guilty. Shortly after his court appearance Friday in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Roger Stone spoke to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on “The […]
Song of the Day 1/25: The Equals, “Police on My Back”
This one’s for Roger Stone, who famously has a criminal tattooed on his back. Most people know this tune because The Clash covered it, but the original was done in 1968 by The Equals, probably best remembered today because their founder and leader, Eddy Grant, went on to a solo career and a big hit […]
How Cape Town Dodged Day Zero – “We’ll never, ever, ever take water for granted again.”
Late last year, as the South African government faced the prospect of its largest city running out of water, they took an unprecedented gamble. The government announced “day zero” – a moment when dam levels would be so low that they would turn off the taps in Cape Town and send people to communal water […]
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
Song of the Day 1/24: They Might Be Giants, “Your Racist Friend”
I listen to a lot of old music, and one of the things I’ve noticed is how little has changed over the years. This song dates back to 1990, when Letterman still had hair and nobody had heard of Kurt Cobain, yet the party scene it describes could have been last week. Always an odd […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., Jan. 24, 2019
Even the Rethugs knew that they were on the wrong side of yesterday’s defeat of HB 3 in the Senate. Serial bloviator Colin Bonini said this: “I will personally write a check to start the GoFundMe page if people want to do this to help these folks,” said state Sen. Colin Bonini, R-Dover South. “But […]
Delaware Forced-Birthers Want Abortion Restrictions
This one hasn’t made it to El Som’s GA PG/PG roundup yet because it hasn’t been officially introduced. But the mere announcement by Sen. Bryant Richardson (R-Your Womb) that he would sponsor measures to ban abortion after 20 weeks and force women to undergo ultrasound procedures drew a front-page headline story in the Delaware State […]
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 Republican for re-election, infuriating Democrats who thought they had a shot at unseating Rep. Fred Upton. Mr. Biden was collecting $200,000 from the Economic Club […]
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 of South Bend, Indiana, and … well, that’s pretty much it. But on Wednesday Buttigieg became the second mayor to throw his hat inthe 2020 […]
Song of the Day 1/23: Tom Petty, “Walls (Circus)”
A somewhat obscure item in the Petty catalog, “Walls” was written for Edward Burns’ 1996 rom-com “She’s the One” and released on the film’s soundtrack album, which got far less attention than a normal Petty album. As a single it reached only No. 69 on the Hot 100, despite background vocals (and, I suspect, the […]
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