"How To Save The U.S. Economy, with @AOC and @StephanieKelton" - a special episode of my podcast #Deconstructed has just dropped. Have a listen and share - an important discussion about what needs to be done now in terms of radical actions:
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"Katie Porter is absolutely right," @AOC tells me on today
s #Deconstructed, referring to @RepKatiePorter's argument in the Atlantic yesterday that @SpeakerPelosi's focus on refundable tax cuts over cutting checks is too slow a response to this crisis:
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s #Deconstructed, referring to @RepKatiePorter's argument in the Atlantic yesterday that @SpeakerPelosi's focus on refundable tax cuts over cutting checks is too slow a response to this crisis:
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"there's a lot of like this 90s wonkery going on where if we do a backdoor tax credit, 'Oh that's clever way of helping people.' But it doesn't address the core issue which is that people are experiencing a shock right now. We need to get checks into people's hands." - @AOC to me
"We need to get checks into people's hands. If you're concerned about it being means-based, tax it on the other end." Spot on from @AOC on #Deconstructed today:
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"We cannot respond to this with a Band-Aid. It cannot be a bailout package and we keep on going the way that we did before. We need to respond to this with permanent systems and structures so that we dd not find ourselves in this fragile of a position again." - @AOC to me today
"Right now we need to stop the bleeding and what that means is getting checks in the hands of working families and making sure those checks aren't going straight out the door... for long-term debts like mortgage and student loan payments." - @AOC to me:
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On #Deconstructed, @AOC tells me that the GOP plan to give poorer families smaller checks is "abhorrent" and says the right has "always been socialist" for the rich. "The hypocrisy, all of it, is laid open."
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"This isn't a spectator sport. We shouldn't sitting around looking at Congress and saying, 'I hope Democratic leadership does the right thing.' We need to be blowing up their phones right now and telling them what we need." - @AOC to me on #Deconstructed
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"I'm not here trying to pray to any person. I'm here to make that sure we put on the heat and the pressure, to get demands, and make sure that we take care of people." - strong stuff from @AOC on today's #Deconstructed. Also the brilliant @StephanieKelton:
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