And I think some of the concern that people have is that it’s easy to do a tax cut—it’s much easier to just say we’re cutting people’s taxes by X rather than saying here’s a brand new childcare program that involves all of these moving parts, state cooperation, and blah blah blah. Let’s just do […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. Democrats are pushing a variety of new tax ideas. Party officials at the state and federal levels are proposing big hikes on income taxes for the wealthy. Senators […]
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Second, it helps that numerous blue states are advancing these provisions at the same time. This way, no individual blue state can be cast as uniquely anti-rich or anti-business. It also complicates things for the super-wealthy, many of whom are socially liberal and therefore prefer living in blue states. Moving from California to Washington or […]
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Source: DOMINIC GWINN / Getty President Donald Trump nominated yet another white nationalist to serve in his administration, and now that nominee has withdrawn his candidacy to serve in the role after his confirmation hearing in February resulted in him being publicly dragged to grand wizard hell and back by Democratic lawmakers over his insistence […]
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Source: Tom Williams / Getty – Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., talks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol on March 5, 2026. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker has announced a new tax proposal called the Keep Your Pay Act, which he introduced in the Senate on March 9. If passed, the bill would be a game […]
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Source: Heather Diehl / Getty In today’s episode of Everybody Haaaaaates Kristi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has spent the last couple of days defending herself and President Donald Trump’s aggressive, chaotic, often violent and demonstrably xenophobic immigration crackdown before lawmakers in both chambers of Congress. To be fair, House Republicans were a little more […]
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Source: MANDEL NGAN / Getty America loves to pretend historical progress is a relay race in which the past generation hands over all the freedoms they worked for to the next generation with a sweaty optimism and a Nell Carter smile. And then you realize that America isn’t a sitcom; it’s more like Game of […]
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