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3 things you can do RIGHT NOW to help stop the tax disaster:

1. Call. Right now. You're probably reading this on your phone, right? Great! Call 202-224-3121 right now.

Say, "I strongly oppose the tax bill. I will not forget how you vote on this. Please do the right thing."
3 things you can do RIGHT NOW to help stop the tax disaster:

2. RSVP to the DC rally on Wednesday (link below). Even if you can't come, go the event page, click "interested" and invite all your friends who might be able to go.

facebook.com/events/1008507…
3 things you can do RIGHT NOW to help stop the tax disaster:

3. Sign the #NotOnePenny pledge at notonepenny.org. You'll get updates about local events and other actions to take in the coming days.
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A quick thread on the economics of a much higher top rate for the super-rich.

TL;DR version is that @AOC is on very solid ground here.

There is a lot of evidence that from an economic and fiscal perspective, we'd be way better off with top rates approaching 70.
@AOC Starting with the basic fiscal implications, the best and most recent research suggests that rates around 70 percent for top earners will raise the most revenue. At 37% currently, we are leaving a lot of $$ on the table.

Diamond and Saez on this: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10…
@AOC Trickle-downers will argue that higher taxes on the rich won't raise money because the rich will reduce their work in response, but the evidence is really clear that's not true at all at current rates. Basically, the "laffer curve" doesn't really kick in until past 70.
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Reflecting on a really terrible day, I find myself thinking about the "Prayer for Our Country."

It's a prayer that many Jewish congregations like Tree of Life would recite every Shabbat morning. I myself recited it many times at Tree of Life growing up.

It goes:
Our God and God of our ancestors: We ask Your blessings for our country - for its government, for its leaders and advisors, and for all who exercise just and rightful authority.
Teach them insights of Your Torah, that they may administer all affairs of state fairly, that peace and security, happiness
and prosperity, justice and freedom may forever abide in our midst.
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Professor @DarrickHamilton & I have a new issue brief today detailing 4 specific ways that the Trump tax law affects communities of color. Like the economy in general, the new law puts black and brown people at a disadvantage.

rooseveltinstitute.org/hidden-rules-n…

Short thread to follow. 1/
First & perhaps most obviously, most people know that the law is skewed to the rich. Because of longstanding racial income gaps, a tax law that benefits the very high-income over everyone else also disproportionately benefits white households over households of color. 2/
Second, racial wealth disparities are even more acute than income disparities, and this new tax law dramatically favors existing wealth over new wealth creation. 3/
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Sunday Times 21 Oct 1984 p.16 'Tearing the heart from a Labour man'
Philip Kleinman on a mortifying experience in politics.
In 1981, Mr Kleinman joined the Islington North CLP but found it 'embodied some of the least attractive trends in today's Labour movement.'
'Our first encounter [with Mr Corbyn] was at a candidate-selection meeting of Islington Fabian Society. He indicated then that he favoured British withdrawal of NATO & from Northern Ireland & the dissolution of the state of Israel.' [!]
'While Ireland seemed to come higher on the political agenda, the subject which most worried me, the most personal concern was Israel. I am no slavish support of that country's policies - the weekly column I have written for 10 years in the @JewishChron is proof enough of that.'
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Here's a thread about the books I read this year!

#reading #books #libraries #readingrainbow
1. "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff. Yes, I hate-read this book in a matter of days. Problematically, Bannon comes across as an articulate, insightful source and not an arch nationalist parasite. Will Wolff's depiction be hagiography in the future?
2. "The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control" and "The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America" by Theodore Allen. Who knew how important Bacon's Rebellion (1676) was to the history of racism?
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I met Shyla last year in a meeting. Her father had dreamt of making her a doctor. But his dreams drowned in the sewer he had died in. This is her story. (ruralindiaonline.org/articles/my-mo…)
Ten years later, Shyla is almost close to realising her father’s dream. She is doing her nursing course, and she needs help. As a society that sent her father down the sewers, I think it is our responsibility to see that she becomes a nurse.
When I met her again last month, Shyla was exuding confidence. “I will soon be a nurse and if you need anything, call me over” she told me and i cant wait.
Shyla’s course fee for third year comes close to Rs 1 lakh. I already have someone pledging Rs 10,000.
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Now that we have actual bill text for the GOP tax plan, my staff and I spent the weekend going over all 425 pages. waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/upl…
What follows are a few lowlights and where to find the explanation in the Joint Committee on Taxation description: jct.gov/publications.h…
Pg 24 Repeals the $4050 (per family member) personal exemption.
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Feels like history now! but @thatginamiller inspired me, I returned from Vienna, joined @LibDems, fought #Richmond, helped @sarahjolney1 WIN
Sane MPs eg @Keir_Starmer @thomasbrake @Anna_Soubry @NickyMorgan01 @DavidLammy @joswinson must be encouraged to find an #exitfrombrexit!
Answer? not in the past! @ProfBrianCox memorably stated "Time travels relentlessly in one direction, FORWARDS" We need ideas for the FUTURE!
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Right now, I'm feeling more terrified than at any point since the 2016 election. Why? It's time for some game theory! 1/
Start with a clear-eyed assessment of Trump's character: he basically has negative empathy -- that is, enjoys seeing others hurt 2/
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