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Thom's blog
Trickle-Down Economics Isn't Even a New Con
 America needs to solve it's parasitic billionaire problem or our democracy will continue to crash & burn. America has to reinvent our understanding of economics after 40 years of living under a tax-cutting, austerity-imposing, Republican-promoted trickle-down Reaganomics scam and return to a Keynesian system that still works in those countries like Norway, New Zealand or Denmark that never adopted "austerity." The core idea of Reaganomics is that if we give huge tax cuts and multi-billion-dollar subsidies to billionaires and giant corporations, that will "incentivize" these "job creators" to expand the economy and raise prosperity all around for everybody. In fact, all those giant corporations and billionaires have done is put all that cash in their money bins and use it to buy 400-foot yachts and rocket rides into outer space…while destroying unions and holding down wages on working-class people. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Trickle-Down Economics Isn't Even a New Con
Right Wingers Support beating Cops with a Flag, But are Outraged When Someone Turns Their Back to the "Anthem," About Racism?
Tweet: " Several people got on to a scaffolding outside Senate, took it to second floor, which looked like the area where McConnell’s office is located, and started banging on windows" (dropped an American flag, held up a Trump flag) by Igor Bobic. Speech: " Farewell Address", by Dwight David Eisenhower, January 17, 1961 ( transcript). " In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex." Quote: " Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." - Thomas Jefferson. Quote: " We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin.
Hour Two:Why Aren't We talking About Vaccine Passports That Protect People and the Economy...For Real?
How Deregulation Has Harmed Condominiums
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Watch & Listen to Thom
How the Morbidly Wealthy are Tanking Democracy (w/ Chuck Collins)
Preventing Democrats From Losing (w/ Rachel Bitecofer)
“They've Been Doing It Forever†(w/ Andrew Perez)
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