Can we crowdsource this? Ideas for greater social/economic inequality in college admissions beyond those that are ordinarily discussed. I'll go with a few....
Need to identify whether you have been the beneficiary of paid tutoring beyond a group standardized test class.
Were you ever in a "pod," in which a family member paid for someone to supervise a remote school day?
Total bar on ex parte communications on your behalf with any administrator, faculty member, or member of the admissions office.
Prohibition on inclusion of unpaid internships on an application.
Identification on the hiring of an extracurricular coach for athletics.
Prohibit inclusion of for-pay academic programs / group travel on application.
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So, with a South Lawn Ceremony for the swearing in of #AmyConeyBarrett, a few thoughts on how we got here...here being a point where 6 members of the Supreme Court have a generally reliable commitment to an originalist theory of constitutional interpretation.
Obviously, this political/legal development is inseparable from some of the most divisive moments in our recent political history.
But I'm going to do my best to play this straight.
During the #ACB hearing at Senate Judiciary, Senator Durbin lamented a loss of Senate comity that allowed for the near unanimous (and unfilibustered) confirmations of Justice Scalia and Justice Ginsburg.
Schumer says prior to infrastructure meeting, "By reversing only the most egregious giveaways in President Trump's tax bill -- and raising the corporate rate a smidge, we could finance the entirety of a $1 trillion infrastructure bill."
Let's fact check this.
Here's the JCT analysis of the Conference Report on TCJA.
file:///C:/Users/bdunn/Downloads/x-67-17%20(5).pdf
A few things stand out.
The entire cost of all the bracket reductions was $1.2 trillion
By comparison, the cost of doubling the standard deduction was $720 million.
George Bluth Sr. liked to remind his family that 'there's always money in the banana stand.'
Well, there's 'always money by increasing rates in the lower brackets.' But absent radical Warren-style reforms, major revenue just isn't there in the upper brackets.