199 | Peter S. Goodman: How Billionaires Devoured the World
The Realignment
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We Should Pass Paid, or Should We Pay for It?
Petersen: There's no such thing as 'deficite spending' in state and local government. The notion that jeff bazel isn't paying his taxes is a funny perversion of stephane kelton's argument, he says. We always have money for more tax cuts for billlionaires, writes Peters. And we don't have money for paid sick leve or child care because " deficit fearmongering" has been used to justify cutting social benefits during the great recession. He adds it seems like you're setting yourself up for trouble by trying to raise taxes on wealthy people when they already pay so little.
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