The country is in debt and we need to provide health care and education to all, and fix our addiction to fossil fuel. We need some of that cash the billionaires are hoarding and that they acquired by gaming the system and paying off politicians.

Some Democrats like Sen. Elizabeth Warren have made good suggestions like her wealth tax idea.

Sen Mitch McConnell wants to now repeal the estate tax handing millions more to wealthy billionaires that fund the GOP while millions of Americans are struggling because his first loyalty is to money. Since Reagan, the Republican Party has sworn loyalty to richness and rich people; the Democrats, by-in-large, have sworn loyalty to principles of universal healthcare and universal education, and to saving the world from climate change. As Jesus said, if you love money first and foremost, you can't love humanity or God. As FDR said, if rich people don't like his tax policy and think they'll have to leave the country, "I will miss them."

We already have a wealth tax in America that's mostly paid by the middle class - it's called the property tax. Why shouldn't billionaires also pay a property tax on their non-real estate property? Two percent of all the wealth of people worth over $50 million will produce trillions. Why shouldn't we do like other nations and tax the wealth of our billionaires? It's time for a change. #UltraMillionaireTax

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Mid-day with Mark
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "Schultz defends criticism of Medicare-for-all proposal" by Veronica Stracqualursi.

Article: "Trump met Putin without staff or note takers present — again" by Alex Ward.

Article: "Green New Deal: what is the progressive plan, and is it technically possible?" by Emily Holden.

Article: "What the President Could Do If He Declares a State of Emergency" by Elizabeth (Liza) Goitein.

Bill: "H.R.676 - Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act" by John Conyers.

Bill: "S.1804 - Medicare for All Act of 2017" by Bernie Sanders.

Article: "No Republican senators have signed onto a bill to give federal contractors backpay after the shutdown" by Li Zhou.

Article: "House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence still has no Republicans" by Abraham Kenmore.

Article: "Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff" (RCV) by FairVote.

Article: "2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Exclusive: Foxconn reconsidering plans to make LCD panels at Wisconsin plant" by Jess Macy Yu, Karl Plume.

Article: "Glacier melt exposes plants frozen under Baffin Island ice for 40,000 years" by Jamie Malbeuf.

Tweet: "In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "NOAA's Brilliant Response To Trumps Climate Tweet" by Trevor Nace.

Tweet: "Winter storms don't prove that global warming isn't happening. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/are-record-snowstorms-proof-global-warming-isn%E2%80%99t-happening" by NOAA.

Article: "Trump’s false claim that Obama had the same family separation policy" by Salvador Rizzo.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "S.99 Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Act" by Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT].

Bill: "H.R.448 - Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Act" by Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7].

Article: "'Empire' star Jussie Smollett hospitalized after possible hate crime in Chicago" by Fox 5.

Quote: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" Declaration of Independence".

Article: "House Democrats officially unveil their first bill in the majority: a sweeping anti-corruption proposal" (HR 1) by Ella Nilsen.

Article: "Medigap" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pocan Launches Bipartisan Rural Broadband Caucus" by Mark Pocan.

Hour Two: What's More Important - The lives of $34,000 Americans or the profits of the NRA?
- Cam Edwards, Host- Cam & Co on NRATV

Article: "Will the Supreme Court Use a New York City Regulation to Strike Down Gun Laws?" by Amy Davidson Sorkin.

Case: "McDonald v. City of Chicago".

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Article: "Commerce Clause" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tough gun laws in Australia eliminate mass shootings" by Meghan Rosen.

Article: "How murder and suicide figures plummeted in Australia after gun control laws were introduced" by Jon Sharman.

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008.

Tweet: "Howard Schultz blames Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for his decision to run as Independent and it has to do with her plan to tax the rich" by The Daily Beast.

Tweet: "Why don’t people ever tell billionaires who want to run for President that they need to “work their way up” or that “maybe they should start with city council first”?" by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Article: "'Greed Has No Limit for GOP': McConnell Estate Tax Repeal Would Hand Tens of Billions to Walton and Koch Families" by Jake Johnson.

Tweet: "Ending the estate tax would give a tax break of up to $63 billion to the Walton family and $39 billion to the Kochs—but $0 to 99.8% of Americans.

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