1/ Generally higher tax rates after WWII made public goods like affordable education and necessary public works a possibility. The post-war GI Bill sent many to college who would never have been able to afford it without public support.
2/ These public goods benefited everyone, including the wealthy 1% and corporations.
Our current tax structure favors the wealthy and makes these former public goods unavailable or punishing to achieve.
Feb 5, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Generally higher tax rates after WWII made public goods like affordable education and necessary public works a possibility. The post-war GI Bill sent many to college who would never have been able to afford it without public support.
2/ These public goods benefited everyone, including the wealthy 1% and corporations.
Our current tax structure favors the wealthy and makes these former public goods unavailable or punishing to achieve.
Jan 21, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
1/ Generally higher tax rates after WWII made public goods like affordable education and necessary public works a possibility. The post-war GI Bill sent many to college who would never have been able to afford it without public support.
2/ These public goods benefited everyone, including the wealthy 1% and corporations.
Our current tax structure favors the wealthy and makes these former public goods unavailable or punishing to achieve.
Jan 20, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Generally higher tax rates after WWII made public goods like affordable education and necessary public works a possibility. The post-war GI Bill sent many to college who would never have been able to afford it without public support.
2/ These public goods benefited everyone, including the wealthy 1% and corporations.
Our current tax structure favors the wealthy and makes these former public goods unavailable or punishing to achieve.
Jan 2, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
1/ An Argument for Forgiving Student Debt
Generally higher tax rates after WWII made public goods like affordable education and necessary public works a possibility. The post-war GI Bill sent many to college who would never have been able to afford it without public support.
2/ These public goods benefited everyone, including the wealthy 1% and corporations.
Our current tax structure favors the wealthy and makes these former public goods unavailable or punishing to achieve.
Sep 3, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Texas Anti-Abortion Shenanigans Backlash
The secret no one is talking about and the reason neither Democrats nor Republicans have codified a law for or against Roe v. Wade in FIVE DECADES is /1 of 5 #TexasAbortionBan
both sides saw a legal victory of their position as a cudgel with which their opponents could beat them in the next election. /2 of 5
Aug 12, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
My take on vaccine hesitancy: 1/ Remember those apocalyptic books and films about killer viruses threatening the survival of humanity? Those stories always end with the discovery of a cure that saves a grateful world. Real life with COVID doesn’t always imitate art. #COVID2/ None of us have really experienced small pox or polio. Kids today don’t know what it means to get mumps, measles or chicken pox. So the vaccines for those diseases don’t trigger a visceral response, and when our doctor prescribes them, we take them.
Aug 8, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
1/ None of us have really experienced small pox or polio. Kids today don’t know what it means to get mumps, measles or chicken pox. So the vaccines for those diseases don’t trigger a visceral response, and when our doctor prescribes them, we take them. #COVID2/ We’ve all are living through the horrors of a COVID pandemic. The lockdowns, the loss of income and security, the illness symptoms, the loss of friends and loved ones, the separations, the clear and present threat of a horrible death.
Nov 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1/4 The whole American student debt scam was invented as a way to reduce public support for higher education and shift the cost burden of a public good (an educated populace) from the Commons to the individual. It has been a disaster that has stifled economic growth #StudentDebt2/4 by creating an entire generation if debt slaves.
Further, access to vitually unlimited Federally supported student debt money has skewed college business models and encouraged higher ed institutions to make bad long term budgeting and pedagogical decisions.
Nov 14, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
It’s tempting to go to the fallback position that Trump will never give a concession speech, which is not to say he’ll never concede. In fact, Laurence O’Donnell on MSNBC has suggested that Trump’s past week of silence WAS his concession speech—in which case O’Donnell wins!
However, I disagree with that facile viewpoint. Nor do I believe he will never concede. It isn’t difficult to sleuth out the date and time down to the second when Trump finally cracks. It will be that exact moment that is most beneficial to Trump and conversely most harmful to
Jul 16, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1 of 4/ A note to all Meghan McCain detractors calling for her removal from @TheView:
Whoopi Goldberg and ABC do us all a favor by putting right wing propaganda on display through the vehicle of Meghan McCain.
2 of 4/ McCain is a low-wattage nepotism beneficiary of her daddy’s actual accomplishments whose daily filibustering diatribes are obviously coached by her fascist hubby, Federalist Ben Domenech.
1/ Every billionaire represents a failure of public policy. Billionaires aren’t part of the solution. They are part of the problem.
2/ Let me make my position clear. Economic structures and laws that allow a single unelected, unaccountable individual (or family) sole control over significant national wealth is as foolish and ultimately unproductive as the old hereditary monarchy system of governance.
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