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Briahna Joy Gray
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"Rich kids" don't take out loans at an 8% interest rate just for fun.

This is exactly the type of justification used to privatize schools, libraries, and other public services.

Progressive taxation means the wealthy pay more to support public goods. This is basic stuff.
I break it down further here: tinyurl.com/y4bb6qo7
And in the most recent episode of #HearTheBern, I go into more detail: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/13-…
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Briahna Joy Gray
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In a final blow to my spirit, I was the last one to make it off an earlier standby flight, only to be pulled from my seat & asked to deplane when the ticketed passenger showed up in the 11th hr.

Consoling myself w/ a torta purchased w/ a $12 voucher from apologetic employees.
Final blow nothing! They just canceled the 3:18 flight to Washington they’d put me on next.

I think I live in Chicago now. @AmericanAir
(Can we add this guy to the Bernie CEO enemies list? 😂)
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Briahna Joy Gray
@briebriejoy
Starting to think unfettered capitalism is a problem.
“Since the EPA began tracking plastics recycling in 1994, when the U.S. recycled less than 5 percent, the rate went up only about 5 percent, peaking at 9.5 percent in 2014.” Meanwhile, the plastics lobby spends millions to keep the govt from regulating plastics.
Imagine if we had a legal system that made corporations pay for the externalities (like pollution) that we all pay for instead, rather than one who priorities the very corporate shareholders who profit from unaccounted for externalities and resulting production inefficiencies?
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Briahna Joy Gray
@briebriejoy
One of the most well attended events (standing room only) at #Netroots today was our own Senator @ninaturner’s panel on black/brown leadership. Standing room only.

I’m extremely proud that the Bernie campaign’s incredibly diverse leadership has genuine power and impact.
For a refresher: our campaign manager, @fshakir, is the first Muslim campaign manager in US presidential history.

Our deputy campaign manager Rene Spellman— Black woman.

Campaign co-chair Senator @ninaturner needs no introduction.

And a black female national press secretary.
(And the indispensable @briana_blue — comms maven).
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Anyways, the conclusion of the data set is amazing. Maker is growing at a staggering pace 💯
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I head a closed cooperative society that in the last 3 years have given out over N100m in loans at 0% interest rate. Yes you heard right - 0% interest rate. The maximum members pay is a 10% flat fee irrespective of the tenure of their loans which can extend to 24 months or more
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#nowreading Debt, by David Graeber
David’s teaches anthropology at LSE. He’s written other books like “Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value”, “Fragments of an Anarhist Anthropology” and “Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar”. He worked with OWS and coined the slogan “We are the 99%”
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Mike "Covfefe" Texas
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"loans" at 33% interest rate.???
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Money Changers....????
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thousands of people came up to the Great Temple feasts Days, changing money was a very profitable business and one that resulted in fraud and oppression of the poor.
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What Did Jesus do to the Money Changers..???
Simple and to the point...
I saw Interest rates here in Texas as much as 21%...
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I also remember this too...
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