For decades, progressives have been talking about eliminating the cap on the Social Security tax and raising Social Security benefits enough that retired and disabled people can actually survive. It makes no sense that working class people have to pay Social Security tax on 100% of their income and a billionaire might pay the Social Security tax on less than 1% of his income, At the same time seniors are cutting pills in half and literally eating dog food. Warren wants to use the money from removing the cap to give everybody on Social Security a $200 a month raise, which will lift 5 million seniors out of poverty, cut the senior poverty rate by 68%, and provide a strong stimulus to the economy because virtually every penny of that money will rapidly be spent.

It's time that wealthy people pay their fair share of Social Security taxes, and disabled and retired Americans who are struggling to get by in this Reaganomics economy don't have to make life and death decisions like, "Do I buy food or do I buy my prescription drugs?"

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Quote: "His campaign manager is a felon. His deputy campaign manager is a felon. His personal lawyer is a felon. His foreign policy advisor is a felon. His national security advisor is a felon. The Trump campaign was run by criminals" -- stuart stevens.

Article: "How to watch tonight's Democratic presidential debate" by Kyle Blaine.

Article: "CNN's Climate Forum Went Badly for Biden" by Jeff Greenfield.

Article: "Democratic primary polls are showing a 3-way race going into the third debate" by Tara Golshan.

Article: "Kamala Harris rises, Joe Biden slips in polls after first 2020 Democratic debate" by Jacob Pramuk.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren proposes major expansion of Social Security" by Tami Luhby and Gregory Krieg.

Site: Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)

Article: "Standard & Poor's 500 Index History Chart January 4, 1960 Through August 23, 2019".

Article: "Warren's Social Security Plan: Increase Benefits, Raise Taxes On The Nation's Highest Earners" by Anthony Brooks.

Article: "Bernie Sanders Just Proposed a Massive Overhaul of Social Security" by Sean Williams.

Article: "What is 'proprietary trading'?" by Heather Stewart.

Article: "Varney: Warren's "Accountable Capitalism Act" Would Be A "Socialist Takeover Of American Business"" by Tim Hains.

Article: "Richest Could Lose Hundreds of Billions Under Warren's Wealth Tax" by Rich Miller and Laura Davison.

Article: "World-famous economist Thomas Piketty has released a new 1,200-page guide to abolishing billionaires and reforming capitalism" by Daniel Strauss.

Book: Capital et idéologie by Thomas Piketty.

Article: "North Carolina Republicans Used an Insane Dirty Trick to Cut Corporate Taxes" by Matt Cohen.

Article: "Cramer: Wall Street executives are saying Elizabeth Warren's 2020 bid has 'got to be stopped'" by Matthew J. Belvedere.

Article: "Fox's Varney Warns President Elizabeth Warren Would Force Corporate Profits to Go to Workers and Customers" by Colby Hall.

Article: "Wall Street is freaking out at the thought of President Liz Warren" by Charles Gasparino.

Article: "CFTC to Gut the Volcker Rule on Anniversary of Lehman Brothers Crash: Ignoring the 2008 Crash, Laying the Groundwork for the Next One" by Better Markets.

Article: "House panel approves impeachment inquiry parameters as Democrats try to clarify their strategy" by Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju.

Article: "United States v. Nixon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Administration to Finalize Rollback of Clean Water Protections" by Coral Davenport.

Article: "Trump Flirts With $15 Billion Bailout for Iran, Sources Say" by Erin Banco, Asawin Suebsaeng.

Article: "Sulphur Content in Cattle Feeds".

Article: "The Trump administration is kicking 3.1 million people off food stamps" by Dylan Matthews.

Article: "Maher: 'I Love' Warren, But 'She Does Scare Me'" by preet.

Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.

Article: "We choose to go to the Moon" (JFK) by Wikipedia.

Bible: "Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand." - Matthew 12:25.

Article: "Joe Biden's greatest betrayal: The one Senate vote that makes it hard to support a Biden run" by Bob Cesca.

Article: "Willie Wilson to Run as Independent for US Senate Against Dick Durbin" by Amanda Vinicky.

Article: "Willie Wilson (businessman)" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: How Banksters Are Screwing Us and Setting Up the Next Crash
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work/Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown / Understanding Marxism

Article: "China Ratchets Up Stimulus, Cutting Reserve Ratio to Lowest Level Since 2007" by Bloomberg News.

Article: "5 major changes the Trump administration wants to make to housing finance" by Jacob Passy.

Article: "Bank run" (bank panic) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump wants Fed to cut interest rates to zero or below. Here's what it could mean for you." by Paul Davidson.

Article: "Wealth of Donald Trump" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Proprietary trading" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Glass-Steagall Act", 1933.

Law: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (1999) (Financial Services Modernization Act Of 1999).

Article: "The End of Welfare as We Know It" by Alana Semuels.

Article: "Laura Ingraham Tries To Drink Light Bulb-Stuffed Steak To 'Trigger' Liberals" by Amy Russo.

Article: "Expanding Social Security" by Elizabeth Warren.

Article: "House Judiciary approves guidelines for impeachment hearings" by Mary Clare Jalonick.

Article: "Five Reasons Why Republicans Won't Abandon Trump Like They Ditched Nixon" by ehrnst.

Article: "Miami is racing against time to keep up with sea-level rise" by Kevin Loria.

Article: "How Elizabeth Warren Raised Big Money Before She Denounced Big Money" by Shane Goldmacher.

Article: "How a Trump Tax Break to Help Poor Communities Became a Windfall for the Rich" by Jesse Drucker and Eric Lipton.

Article: "'He's Like, "OK, Well, Screw It"'" (Beto O'Rourke) by Michael Kruse.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "Here's the Democratic Debate Lineup - and What's at Stake for Those Onstage" by Reid J. Epstein.

Article: "House moves closer to impeaching Trump after passing key vote" by Chris Riotta.

Article: "Ineligibility Clause" (Emoluments Clause).

Article: "Unsealed docs detail Trump's level of involvement in hush money scheme" by Andrea Mitchell.

Article: "Here's all the evidence of obstruction of justice in the Mueller report, in case you forgot" by Ephrat Livni.

Article: "Share of Americans With Health Insurance Declined in 2018" by Ben Casselman, Margot Sanger-Katz and Jeanna Smialek.

Article: "6 promises Trump has made about health care" by Henry C. Jackson.

Article: "U.S. Core Inflation Exceeds Forecasts as Medical-Care Costs Jump" by Jeff Kearns and Reade Pickert.

Article: "The uninsured rate had been steadily declining for a decade. But now it's rising again." by Dylan Scott.

Article: "The richest 1 percent now owns more of the country's wealth than at any time in the past 50 years" by Christopher Ingraham.

Article: "U.S. officials ripped a Bahamian girl from her family and sent her to a migrant kids' facility" by Gabe Ortiz.

Article: "'If I'm sent back, I will die': sick immigrants facing deportation testify before House committee" by Gabe Ortiz.

Video: Sick immigrants make case in Congress to protect medical deferral.

Article: "Declaration of Independence".

Article: "Trump delays tariff hikes on Chinese goods ahead of talks" by BBC.

Article: "Trashing Fed 'Boneheads,' Trump calls for central bank to cut interest rates to 'ZERO'" by Quint Forgey.

Article: "Trump jealously complains about interest rates in Europe: 'They get paid to borrow money!'" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Trump's company could save millions if interest rates fall as he demands" by Jonathan O'Connell, David A. Fahrenthold and Heather Long.

Article: "North Carolina Special Election Results: Ninth House District" by Matthew Bloch and Jasmine C. Lee.

Article: "What we know about the alleged election fraud plot in North Carolina" by Dylan Scott.

Article: "Texas mother Crystal Mason appeals five-year sentence for illegal voting" by Taylor Barnes.

Article: "Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House" by Daniel Lippman.

Article: "Hubble telescope spies water raining on distant world" by Alexandra Witze.

Article: "Ben Carson cleared by HUD inspector general of misconduct in ordering $31,000 dining room set for office suite" by Tracy Jan.

Article: "The Trump Administration Opened Secretive Tent Courts At The Border. The Public Is Not Allowed Inside." by Adolfo Flores.

Video: Will You Vote for Universal Basic Income in 2020 Election? (w/Andrew Yang).

Article: "Basic income" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Three-Fifths Compromise" by Wikipedia.

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