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Robert Reich
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Trump is Project 2025. It is his plan, written by people he hand-chose, to put every aspect of Americans' lives under MAGA control. I'll be releasing a video about it soon, but in the mean time, please read this.?
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Read this, share this widely
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a good guy with a gut
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"win"? 🤔
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Robert Reich
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25 corporations pretending to honor Pride month have donated $18 million to anti-LGBTQ+ politicians since November 2022. Ignore the marketing and follow the money.
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Robert Reich
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Typical pay for the 100 highest paid CEOs was over $29M last year. Much of the compensation was tied to stock gains. Just so happens that corporations spent ~$800 BILLION on stock buybacks, which artificially boost share prices. Translation: CEOs are goosing their own pay.
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Robert Reich
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Your periodic reminder that Medicare For All would save $450 billion in health care costs and 68,000 lives per year.
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Robert Reich
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Your Flag Day reminder that Justice Samuel Alito flew not one, but two pro-insurrection flags at his homes. Alito failing to recuse himself from Trump's immunity case and other Jan 6 cases tells you everything you need to know about the SCOTUS code of "ethics." It's a sham.
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Robert Reich
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Harlan Crow and other GOP megadonors have provided Clarence Thomas with gifts valued at over $4 million. They include... -38 destination vacations -26 private jet flights -6 helicopter flights -Yacht voyages Still wondering why SCOTUS approval ratings have hit record lows?
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Marc Elias
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Having been convicted of crimes related to the 2016 election and indicted for trying to overturn the 2020 election, Donald Trump is now plotting his next crime in 2024.
I hope you take a few minutes to read what I wrote and to share it with others.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dona...
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Robert Reich
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59 years ago today, Griswold v. Connecticut guaranteed the right to birth control. Justice Thomas says the Supreme Court should "reconsider" that ruling. And this week, 38 GOP senators voted against the Right to Contraception Act. Republicans are coming for birth control.
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Robert Reich
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34 felony convictions 54 pending criminal charges 2 impeachments 2 popular vote losses $88M owed to E Jean Carroll $450M owed for civil fraud $8T added to nat'l debt 2.9M net loss of jobs Is this what Trump meant when he promised "numbers like we've never seen"?
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a good guy with a gut
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" ... speaks in vulgar terms ... "?! it was a confession of sexual assault, you dopes
#allTheNewsThatsFitToEuphemize
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Robert Reich
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Wall Street tycoon Stephen Schwarzman endorsed Trump yesterday. He joins a growing list of billionaires who once condemned the former president but are now flocking to his campaign. Never underestimate how quickly billionaires will sell out our democracy for tax cuts.
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Robert Reich
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Memo to the media: Don't write about corporations suddenly lowering prices without mentioning how their profits have been skyrocketing or their tax bills have been shrinking. They could have kept prices lower all along. They chose note to. Give people the full picture.
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Robert Reich
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Effective tax rates before and after the Trump tax law: Verizon Before: 21% After: 8% Walmart Before: 31% After: 17% AT&T Before: 13% After: 3% Walt Disney Before: 26% After: 8% FedEx Before: 18% After: 1% This is what a corporate giveaway looks like.
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Robert Reich
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The FTC found evidence that a US oil exec colluded with OPEC in 2021 and 2022 to cut production and drive up prices. The price-fixing scam is estimated to have cost Americans an extra $2,100 per year. When I say corporate greed is driving inflation, this is what I mean.
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Robert Reich
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The Biden Admin's rule limiting credit card late fees was set to begin tomorrow. But a Trump-appointed judge blocked it at the request of the Chamber of Commerce — costing U.S. families an estimated $27 million a day. MAGA and corporate interests want to keep ripping you off.
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Robert Reich
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Top media company CEO pay in 2023: Disney: $31.6M Warner Bros: $49.7M Netflix: $49.8M & $40.1M Comcast: $35.5M Paramount: $31.3M Remember when execs claimed they couldn't afford to pay writers and actors more during the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike? That was pure fiction.
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a good guy with a gut
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no sense rushing into it 🤔
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Robert Reich
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The FTC alleges that a major US oil exec colluded with OPEC to cut production and drive up prices. Research found that Big Oil price fixing may have contributed to 27% of total inflation in 2021. When I say corporate greed is driving inflation, this is what I mean.
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Robert Reich
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Your regular reminder that if not for the Trump and Bush tax cuts, federal revenues would keep pace with federal spending indefinitely. Instead, these tax cuts have added $10 trillion to the debt. The so called "party of fiscal responsibility" is full of it.
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a good guy with a gut
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if you'd have posted this a year ago you'd have saved me a helluva lot of trouble 🤨
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Robert Reich
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From 1978 to 2022, CEO pay grew by 1,209% while the typical worker's pay rose just 15%. This explosion in CEO pay relative to the pay of average workers isn’t because CEOs have become so much more valuable than before. They've just gamed the system to line their pockets.
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Robert Reich
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From 1989 — 2021, typical working families in the US saw negligible increases in their real incomes and wealth. Meanwhile, the wealthiest 1% became $29 trillion richer. Trickle-down economics did not work. It still does not work. It will never work. It's not meant to work.
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it ain't a 'hush money' trial, it's an *election interference* (i.e., *FRAUD*) trial
you're welcome
@nytimes.com
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Robert Reich
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The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
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Robert Reich
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Why are we talking about whether paying fast food workers a better wage will drive up the cost of a Big Mac instead of asking how much McDonald's CEO's $17.8M salary is driving up the cost?
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Robert Reich
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Your April Fools' Day Reminder that trickle-down economics is the greatest trick of all. It's nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich at your expense. Don't fall for it.
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Robert Reich
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Researchers estimate that if the top 1% of Americans paid the full amount of taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion a year. That’s just UNPAID taxes. Not new or higher taxes. How about we make them pay their fair share and use the money to invest in the American people?
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Robert Reich
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$10.2 billion. That is the projected amount that will be spent on political advertising during the 2024 election. This would make it the most expensive election in history. Good god, do we need to overturn Citizens United.
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Robert Reich
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Walmart hiked prices on its Great Value food brands. The result? Its net income spiked 93% to $10.5 billion towards the end of 2023. Walmart rewarded shareholders with $5.9 billion in buybacks and dividends. When I say price gouging is driving inflation, this is what I mean.
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Robert Reich
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The GOP loves blaming the deficit on Social Security and Medicare. But the real culprit is giveaways to corporations and the rich. If not for the regressive tax cuts under Bush and Trump, we would have a stable debt-to-GDP ratio. That's one thing the GOP will never tell you.
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Robert Reich
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