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Today in Republican Priorities
These are nice people. Under CEP, schools or school districts where 40 percent of the student body directly qualifies for free meals (via food stamps or other nutrition assistance or welfare programs)...
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TrumpCare: Republican Class Warfare
Finally, someone is standing up for our wealthiest citizens and the lives of endless luxury they deserve. Two of the biggest tax cuts in Republican proposals to repeal the Affordable Care Act would...
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The Trump Budget
I interrupt my travels around Appalachia this week that have taken me away from both the blog and the 21st century for a brief post on the Trump budget. It’s as great a monstrosity as you would...
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The Republican War on Workers: Iowa Edition
Colin Gordon has an excellent if depressing summary of the horrors Iowa Republicans have pushed through this year, which has included an anti-union bill that makes Scott Walker look like a piker and...
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GOP Class Warfare
Once again, the primary threat to this nation is not Donald Trump, it’s the Republican Party. Under enormous internal pressure to quickly balance the budget, Republicans are considering slashing more...
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The Thread of Despair
I don’t know how you all are doing, but I can say that the last couple of days, watching the inevitably of this absurd tax plan move toward passage, that I have been the most depressed I’ve been since...
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Republican Policy Preferences
Remember folks, Republicans hate you and don’t care if you live or die. Five days ahead of the midterm elections, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser took to trashing the minimum wage. “My...
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Socialized Risk for the Wealthy
Why did the Payment Protection Program become a mechanism for the upward distribution of wealth? The New York Times provides one possible answer: the big banks who were best prepared to disburse funds...
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The modern GOP, in a nutshell?
Congressman Jim Banks auditioned a new line of attack against Biden’s loan-forgiveness program: that it undermines military recruitment. I have questions, such as “what are the ethics of saddling...
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