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The middle class starts to feel the pain from the Trump/GOP tax cut for the rich
Middle Class Dads Freak Out About Trump Tax Hike Now it’s becoming clearer that the Trump/GOP tax cuts they passed last year will raise taxes for millions of middle class Americans, so that the 1% can get another $1 trillion handout.
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Trump Proof Seattle and making the rich pay their fair share
Trump Proof Seattle discussed the effort to make rich people pay their fair share of taxes and to fix out horrendous wealth inequality.
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Sen. Patty Kuderer speaks in Kirkland about the proposed state bank
Friday evening in Kirkland, State Senator Patty Kuderer spoke about the establishment of a state bank for Washington State. Last year, Governor Inslee signed a budget that included $480,000 to develop a proposal for the creation of a public cooperative bank. Professional bankers and economists are in the process of working out details of how the…
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Marianne Williamson’s inspired presidential announcement speech
A bit corny and New Agey, but she speaks powerfully and truthfully:
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Criminal Cost of Insulin
Indeed: “Diabetes Management’s digital edition reports that the cost of insulin has increased from $100 to $200 per month to $400 to $500 per month, depending on the brand.” (source)
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Letter to the editor in the Bellevue Reporter: A National Emergency
The following letter to the editor, by me, appears in the the Bellevue Reporter under the heading “A National Emergency,” both in the print edition and online here (scroll down past the first letter). During the first two years of Trump’s presidency, Republicans had a chance to build the wall; they didn’t. They had a…
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Capital gains tax at risk. Contact legislators!
Please contact Guy Palumbo, Mark Mullet, Dean Takko, and Steve Hobbs and ask them to support the capital gains tax bill SB 5314 (“Assisting Washington families by improving the fairness of the state’s tax system by enacting a capital gains tax and providing property tax relief”). They’re the ones who may prevent one from happening.…
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World Beyond War is a global movement to end all wars. Is that asking for too much?
https://worldbeyondwar.org/ It kinda reminds me of George W Bush’s war on evil: too ambitious. I’d be happy with a significant lessening of war. But maybe that’s the wrong way to look at.
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Credible allegations of cover-ups about JFK, MLK, and RFK assassinations
I eschew giving credence to far-out conspiracy theories. But given the accumulated evidence that there was a cover-up about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, I am sharing a link to this googledoc, which was signed by a prestigious list of professionals and celebrities, many who had first-hand knowledge of the relevant events in…
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Link: Two-Tracks; The Key to Single-Payer Success
Two-Tracks; The Key to Single-Payer Success Good article about Rep. Jayapal and the two tracks towards single payer.