For the majority of Americans who are so poor they barely have to pay income taxes, Scott's plan is just the latest in a 40-year barrage of assaults and insults coming from the GOP.

They're at it again: Republicans want to raise taxes on poor and working-class Americans, end Social Security and Medicare, jack up pollution and corporate profits, all while continuing to pamper their billionaire donor base.

This time it's the guy in charge of getting Republican senators elected and re-elected, Florida's Senator Rick Scott.

You may remember him as the guy who ran the company convicted of the largest Medicare fraud in the history of America, who then took his money and ran for Governor of Florida, where he prevented the state from expanding Medicaid for low-income Floridians for all the years he ran the state.

Now he's the second-richest guy in the senate and, IMHO, the leading candidate for the GOP nomination for president in 2024. And, true to form, he's echoing the sentiments of the richest guy in the Senate, Mitt Romney, the last guy before Trump to have that nomination.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Revealed: New GOP Plan to Raise Taxes on Working People & End Social Security & Medicare" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Fox Newsers rally around Rick Scott's radical GOP blueprint" by Matt Gertz.

Article: "COVID-19 Tax Relief Added to Increasing Share of Households Paying No Income Tax" by Garrett Watson.

Article: "The Forbes 400 Pay Lower Tax Rates Than Many Ordinary Americans" by Julia Cusick, Madeline Shepherd, Lola Oduyer.

Article: "61% of Americans paid no federal income taxes in 2020, Tax Policy Center says" by Robert Frank.

Article: "An 11-point-plan to rescue America" by Rick Scott.

Article: " Leaked video puts Romney campaign on defensive again" by Philip Rucker.

Article: "Rick Scott's Company Committed Historic Medicare Fraud. He Will Now Lead Trump's Health-Care Push" by Matt Stieb.

Article: "Fed Chief Sets Monetary Policy By Seat-of-the-Pants Approach" by David Wessel.

Article: "Ukraine faces severe cold blast as it fights Russian invasion" by Kasha Patel.

Article: "Yemen: Plight of Population is Growing as World Attention Wanes " by ICRC.

Article: "McConnell rebukes Scott over his 11-point plan that includes a tax hike on the poorest families: 'That will not be a part of the Republican Senate agenda'" by Bryan Metzger and Joseph Zeballos-Roig.

Article: "Decline in hate-group numbers disguises how deeply extremism has spread within the GOP" by David Neiwert.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oklahoma City bombing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "28 Months Later - The Hidden Toll of COVID *Not* Being Discussed" by bilboteach.

Event: March 10 @ 6pm (PT)" Seattle Townhall Books webinar: 'The Hidden History of Big Brother in America'".

Article: "China unsettled by Ukraine, but don't underestimate Xi's Taiwan resolve -CIA head" by David Brunnstrom, Michael Martina.

Article: "Tucker Carlson: Why Is The United States Funding Biological Labs in Ukraine? What Is Victoria Nuland Hiding?" by Tyler Stone.

Video: Hayes: Putin's biggest fear may be the one thing he can't lie about.

Tweet: "Dear @DeptofDefense: Wrong answer. You need to figure out how to get MiG-29 jets to Ukraine asap. The survival of the democracy of Ukraine is at stake.
Get it done." by Ted Lieu.

Tweet: "As my Senators, I just wanted to let you know I'm furious about the Neville Chamberlain routine the Biden administration is running. @SenRonWyden @SenJeffMerkley" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Ukraine Update: A no-fly zone means all-out war with Russia, it's no half-measure" by kos.

Article: "US, UK fear Russia may use chemical weapons in Ukraine as EU accuses Moscow of war crimes for hospital strike " by ABC.

Video: Zelenskyy says he believes Putin will negotiate.

Article: "Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq" by Jonathan Stein, Tim Dickinson.

Clip: "Iraq sits on top of 10 percent of the world's oil reserves, very significant reserves, second only to Saudi Arabia." Vice President Dick Cheney, Meet the Press, September 14, 2003.

Article: "The Secrets and Lies of the Vietnam War, Exposed in One Epic Document" by Elizabeth Becker.

Article: "Cruz Rides With Trucker Convoy As It Circles Capital Beltway For Fourth Time To Little Fanfare" by Summer Concepcion.

Video: Thom Vs The Freedom Convoy - You Are Pathetic on Masks & Putin.

Book: They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency by Malcolm Nance.

Article: "Russia has lost more than 12,000 soldiers, 317 tanks, 49 aircraft and 81 helicopters in Ukraine since Feb 24 - General Staff of AFU" by Interfax-Ukraine.

Article: "Russians keep pressure on Mariupol after hospital attack" by Evgeniy Maloletka.

Article: "1967 Oil Embargo" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "Crisis of Confidence" by Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979.

Hour Two: Don't Say Gay Bill Passes...now what?
- Shevrin "Shev" Jones PhD, Florida State Senator / Executive Director-Florida Reading Corps / Former Chemistry Teacher

Article: "Out Sen. Shevrin Jones Breaks Down in Debate Over 'Don't Say Gay' Bill" by Jacob Ogles.

Article: "'Don't Say Gay' bill: Florida Senate passes controversial LGBTQ school measure" by Brooke Sopelsa, Tat Bellamy-Walker and Reuters.

Article: "Georgia legislators introduce a Florida-style 'Don't Say Gay' bill" by Tat Bellamy-Walker.

Article: "Watch: 'LGBT Is Not a Permanent Thing' Declares Florida MAGA Senator Speaking in Support of 'Don't Say Gay' Bill" by David Badash.

Article: "Bucharest Summit Declaration " by NATO. "NATO welcomes Ukraine's and Georgia's Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO."

Article: "Can the World Learn from the Failure of the Budapest Accords?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Chronicle of War Foretold" by Chris Hedges.

Article: "Florida House passes election police bill, sends it to gov" by Anthony Izaguirre.

Article: "How Jeb Bush Stole the 2000 Election for His Brother" by Greg Palast.

Article: "It's Official: Texas Republicans' New Voting Law Disenfranchised Thousands Of Otherwise Eligible Voters" by Matt Shuham and Kate Riga.

Article: "Coronavirus: Hong Kong medical workers share distressing scenes from overcrowded public hospitals as cases surge" by Elizabeth Cheung.

Article: "Dennis Prager Catches COVID And Claims He Did It On Purpose" by David Moye.

Article: "2 prosecutors leading Manhattan DA's Trump probe resign, leaving charges in doubt" by Aaron Katersky.

Article: "Trump's business career is more connected to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy than we ever knew" by Grace Panetta.

Article: "Monroe Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Putin's Case for War, Annotated" by Max Fisher.

Article: "Listen: Merrick Garland on Any Potential Prosecution of Trump – 'We Are Not Avoiding Cases That Are Political'" by David Badash.

Video: Russia threatens to abandon US astronaut in space.

Article: "130 Years After Hitler's Birth, He Continues to Live as a Symbol of Evil" by Jeffrey Kluger.

Article: "PBS Short Film Festival : A Night at the Garden | PBS" (Nazi Madison Square Garden rally).

Article: "Democrats look for ways to lower gas prices, Republicans cynically want to keep them high" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "Oil Nations, Prodded by Trump, Reach Deal to Slash Production" by Clifford Krauss.

Article: "Massive bursts of methane plumes occur all over the U.S. with little explanation as to why" by April Siese.

Article: "The Love Canal Tragedy" by Eckardt C. Beck.

Article: "Superfund" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." - attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

Article: "1979 oil crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Aeroflot halts international flights as Russian sanctions increase risk of foreign-leased planes being impounded" by Sam Tabahriti.

Article: "Planes Leased to Russia Airlines Now Out of Reach Of Owners" by Julie Johnsson, Danny Lee.

Article: "Invasion of Poland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Winter War" (First Soviet-Finnish War) by Wikipedia.

Documentary: Fire and Ice: The Winter War of Finland and Russia.

Article: "Chernobyl plant disconnected from power grid; Ukraine demands cease-fire for urgent repairs" by Adela Suliman and David L. Stern.

Article: "Saudi's MbS will eventually take Biden's call" by Lauren Silva Laughlin and George Hay.

Article: "On the ground: CNN's Clarissa Ward reports on how heavy fighting unfolded east of Kyiv Thursday" by Jason Kurtz.

Article: "Norway, Sweden and Finland Donate 2000 Anti-tank Rockets To Ukraine" by GDC.

Article: "Chernobyl disaster", 26 April 1986 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gulf of Tonkin incident" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Propaganda of the Spanish-American War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Satellite images show flooding north of Kyiv in possible sign of 'hydraulic warfare'" by Reis Thebault and Dylan Moriarty.

Article: "Russian 'brain drain' of academic, finance, and tech workers 'might be the most important problem' for its economy, experts say" by Jason Lalljee.

Article: "Russian News Says Trademark Loopholes Could Be Used to Reopen McDonald's" by Justin Klawans.

Article: "Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are winding down in Russia." by Lananh Nguyen.

Article: "The Economy Does Better Under Democrats" by FactPAC.

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