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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"If you want to know why any national republican does anything, here is your answer."
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If you want to know why any national republican does anything, here is your answer.
For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last...
The analysis sets the stage for a new book by economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman on tax avoidance among the rich.
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If you want to know why any national republican does anything, here is your answer.
For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last...
The analysis sets the stage for a new book by economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman on tax avoidance among the rich.
washingtonpost.com
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"If you want to know why any national republican does anything, here is your answer." (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Oct 2020
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bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)1. Kick and recommend for visibility
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)2. That's
That's at the core of their very rotten apple.
I know I may be being simplistic and generalizing, but there seems to be two kinds of republicans, basically:
1. The wealthy ones along a spectrum.
2. The people whom they can convince to vote against their own self-interest.
One tends to be very crafty at the kind of deception required to do that and the other tends to be low-information, misinformed, naive and easily manipulated.
They jump in the political bed together and get jiggy. The latter gets screwed royally again and again and then thanks the former.
Ponietz
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Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)4. There must be substantial incremental change real soon, or else
there will be a big, unhealthy change all at once.