← Feed

Posts

• View post

  “A CEO earning $20M a year pays Social Security taxes on roughly 1% of their income, while a worker earning under the cap pays SS taxes on 100% of their income.They both end up paying the same amount of money into the program. This isn’t fair. The rise in the amount of income above the cap due to inequality has cost the Social Security Trust Fund reserve more than $1.4T since 1983.The solution is obvious: scrap the cap and make the rich pay more in SS taxes.” https://robertreich.substack.com/p/...

• View post

  “On 9/11, Trump was securely in his penthouse apartment 4mi away from the World Trade Center..Roll forward 25 years, and Trump is claiming that he was at Ground Zero on 9/11 with a crew of his employees to aid in the disaster recovery, when 2 firefighters grabbed him by the arms and dragged him away from a building that was about to collapse..Among the many despicable lies that Trump has told, this is among his worst.” https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/i-agree-with-mike-johnson-the-choice?r=...

• View post

  “Clearly,we’re looking at a symptom of deranged Trump syndrome.As Trump’s failures,from soaring fuel prices to plunging approval,multiply,he is doubling down on his disrespect for and attempted bullying of our northern neighbor and former ally.That is,you should think of this conflict not as something reflecting US national interests,but as a form of self-medication from a sundowning president.” https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/adding-injury-to-insult-canada-edition?r=1uo829&utm_mediu...

• View post

  “Sadly,Americans in power responded as the terrorists would have wanted;indeed,we exceeded their expectations,making the world much worse for ourselves and everyone else..We had an opportunity to see 9/11 more deeply,and to react in a way that would have created a safer world for generations to come.And we did not take that opportunity.The basic American policy response to 9/11 should have been to liberate ourselves from fossil fuels.” https://snyder.substack.com/p/helping-the-terrorists-to-win...

• View post

  “And yet the Court’s own emergency docket has grown quite comfortable intervening in redistricting fights right before elections whenever it chooses, even while telling everyone else that late intervention is too disruptive to allow.As Prof. Vladeck notes,Judge Clark’s order is a lower court taking its cues from a Supreme Court that doesn’t consistently follow its own rules. The same mechanics on display in Missouri are coming for the fight over mail ballots this fall.” https://statuskuo.substa...

• View post

  “..Trump accounts exist. The question is whether people will be helping their kids by putting money into them..the answer for almost everyone is no.The main reason is that we already have 529 accounts for the purpose of saving for a kid’s education.The big difference between the accounts..is that it is possible to withdraw money from a 529 account,if it’s needed,where it is not possible to withdraw money from a Trump account for any reason,until the kid turns 18.” https://open.substack.com/pub/...

• View post

  “The wealthiest Americans used to pay higher taxes to finance the government. Now, the government pays wealthy Americans interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on wealthy Americans. Which means a growing portion of everyone else’s taxes are now paying wealthy Americans interest on those loans, instead of paying for government services everyone needs.” https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/what-no-one-will-tell-you-about-the?r=1uo829&utm_medium=ios