#Taxes

We don't talk about the mechanics of *WHY* UBI is affordable enough.Any individual plan is complicated, that's life, but the economics of why UBI is affordable are actually quite simple
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It's tax time!!Today I sit down and slot through a bunch of forms and discover whether or not I win or lose the tax lottery.A about online filing and the
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Cuomo relies on GOP talking points on millionaire migration & taxes; lobbying groups hired by the super-rich (Empire Center, Citizens Budget Commission) repeat the lies. Studies show tax-dodging moving millionaires
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Why do carbon taxes fall short? Here's a quick tweet thread on their limitations. For context, I am a carbon tax advocate, was on the board of WA's 2016 revenue-neutral
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Here's why medicare for all should be a RIGHT WING position. A thread: It'll be better for the economy! A medicare for all system would actually be 13% cheaper overall
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A thread covering one reason why economic conservatism is nonsense for Christians.I specifically say "economic conservatism" because "cultural" things (abortion and sex mostly) are used as a shield for less-examined
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Consider three primary world views: 1) Conservative defense of low taxes & low spending, 2) Supporting a more active deficit-financed fiscal policy & 3) Supporting a more-active tax-funded fiscal policy.https://www.businessinsider.c
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I’m just gonna add something about one common racist trope in this person’s rant:“People sending their kids to schools they don’t pay for...”Let’s examine that one for a second.1/https://twitter.com/hoarsewisperer/status/1275785
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One reason I've never much liked the phrase "trickle-down economics" is that it's kind of a straw man.The GOP's argument was never literally that by cutting taxes for the rich,
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Thread:- My husband’s parents were refugees in WWII. Their parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins, friends, and neighbours almost all died in concentration camps, or on their way to the camps. They
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THREAD: Because the government has to pay its bills just as we do, it has budget constraints. There are 3 sources to finance the gov's expenditures: taxing, borrowing or printing
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The Triumph of Injustice is now available in paperback!To celebrate, here is a thread with some of the key charts — telling the story of what happened to US inequality
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Im the quintessential middle-class man of this country!1. I pay my taxes even when I see influential people avoid it2. I follow all the rules even when I see influential
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Atlantic Canada at tax disadvantage compared to neighbouring New England states | Read our @taxpayerDOTcom news release and new report: https://www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/atlantic-canada-at-tax-disadvantage-compared-to-neighbouring-new-engla
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VOTE!- Didn't provide a vaccine.- Didn't contain the virus.- Mexico didn't pay for the wall.- Crashed the economy.- Never provided a healthcare plan.- Never gave us an infrastructure pkg.- Caged
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"Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth. They know next to nothing as a rule about their own history, or the histories of other
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