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Opinion | The GOP tax plan is to let the rich pay less and make you pay more
By Jennifer Rubin
President Biden, consistent with his idea of building an economy from “the bottom up and the middle out,” has tried to get the rich and big corporations to pay more taxes. The MAGA GOP, abandoning all pretense of populism, has a scheme to junk the progressive tax code and replace it with a national sales tax, with devastating results for the middle class.
That tells you a lot about the contrasting visions of the two parties. One still fights for the little guy in practical, concrete terms while the other proposes one harebrained scheme after another with no regard to the needs of average Americans.
Biden’s American Rescue Plan expanded the child tax credit for a year and permanently made it fully refundable, meaning that parents receive the money regardless of how much they owe in taxes. Keeping his promises not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year and to get businesses to pay more, Biden raised $300 billion in revenue in the Inflation Reduction Act by placing a new tax on stock buybacks and enacting a minimum tax on big corporations. To the chagrin of tax cheats (and their sympathetic Republican politicians), the law also boosted funding for the Internal Revenue Service to crack down on tax evaders.
None of these were radical changes in the code. More far-reaching plans to increase the individual top marginal tax rate, to boost the corporate tax rate, to equalize tax treatment of capital gains and ordinary income for those making more than $400,000, and to eliminate the step-up basis for the estate tax never passed.
The principle underlying all of these measures, which would be comparatively small adjustments that would not hit the vast majority of Americans, was simple: The rich have made out very well and should pay more taxes; working- and middle-class taxpayers shouldn’t.
“Over the past 40 years, the wealthy have gotten wealthier, and too many corporations have lost their sense of responsibility to their workers, their communities and the country,” Biden said in a speech in September 2021. “CEOs used to make about 20 times the average worker in the company that they ran. Today, they make more than 350 times what the average worker in their corporation makes.” He added, “Since the pandemic began, billionaires have seen their wealth go up by $1.8 trillion. That is, everyone who was a billionaire before the pandemic began, the total accumulated wealth beyond the billions they already had has gone up by $1.8 trillion.”
That grotesque widening of income inequality offends most Americans, who consistently tell pollsters the rich should pay more.
GOP politicians and their wealthy donors see things differently. The first tax measure proposed by the MAGA House was to try to take back funding for the IRS to chase down tax cheats.
“The debate should focus on one accurate and alarming number: the IRS has 2,284 fewer skilled auditors to handle the sophisticated returns of wealthy taxpayers than it did in 1954,” Chuck Marr of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities wrote. “The decade-long, House Republican-driven budget cuts have created dysfunction at the IRS, where relatively few millionaires are now audited.”
But allowing tax cheats to avoid paying what they legally owe is not the sum total of the GOP thinking on taxes. “As part of his deal to become House Speaker,” Semafor reported, “Kevin McCarthy reportedly promised his party’s conservative hardliners a vote on legislation that would scrap the entire American tax code and replace it with a jumbo-sized national sales tax.”
A mammoth 30% sales tax would be grossly regressive, socking it to the same working- and middle-class families Republicans ostensibly worry are paying more at the pump and grocery store because of inflation.
You know the idea is rotten when Grover Norquist, the head of Americans for Tax Reform, blasted the move. He told Semafor: “This is a political gift to Biden and the Democrats.” Even Norquist knows that because the poor and middle class spend a much higher percentage of their income on necessities such as food and clothing, the impact would be devastating.
Unsurprisingly Democrats leaped at the chance to blast the scheme. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tweeted:
Biden also hammered Republicans: “National sales tax, that’s a great idea. It would raise taxes on the middle class by taxing thousands of everyday items from groceries to gas, while cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans.”
The GOP plan boils down to this: Let rich tax cheats get away with not paying what they owe while redoing the entire tax system so the overwhelming burden will fall on those less able to pay. Genius! Well, if you are a Democrat running in 2024.
The plan is unlikely even to get a vote. But it is indicative of the utter lack of seriousness that pervades the GOP. They throw out one boneheaded idea after another, hoping to please some segment of their base or donors, with nary a care in the world for the needs of their constituents nor for the actual challenges we face.
#us politics#news#the washington post#op eds#Jennifer Rubin#president joe biden#biden administration#american rescue plan#inflation reduction act#taxes#us tax code#federal tax codes#internal revenue service#Chuck Marr#Center on Budget and Policy Priorities#Semafor#rep. kevin mccarthy#Grover Norquist#sen. elizabeth warren#tweet#twitter#the white house#2023#118th congress#us house of representatives#conservatives#republicans#gop policy#gop platform#gop
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On May 15, 1992, Rubin and Ed debuted in the United States.
#rubin and ed#trent harris#crispin glover#comedy movies#buddy comedy#indie film#surrealist film#surreal comedy#cult film#cult cinema#screwball comedy#road movies#road comedy#indie cinema#movie art#art#drawing#movie history#pop art#modern art#pop surrealism#cult movies#portrait
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Retro Game Spotlight 081: Battlezone (1980)
Publisher: Atari
Platform: arcade
Designers: Ed Rotberg, Morgan Hoff, Roger Hector, Owen Rubin
Trivia: Often considered the first true first-person 3D arcade game, Battlezone used a vector graphics display like Atari's earlier Lunar Lander and Asteroids games.
#Atari#Battlezone#arcade#video games#retro gaming#Ed Rotberg#Morgan Hoff#Roger Hector#Owen Rubin#Retro Game Spotlight
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I watched Rubin & Ed yesterday and the reoccurring statement "Andy Warhol Sucks A Big One" was a highlight.
#sorry for the bad quality i took a photo of my tv with my phone#rubin & ed#rubin & ed 1991#crispin glover#howard hesseman#rubin farr
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#ettubrucey#birthday#crispin glover#crispin hellion glover#clowny clown clown#rubin and ed#1991#Rubin Farr#Mr. Farr#smiling lips#see what a cigar'll do#mine#silly
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Ruben (Gallego) would be running to win.
Ruben (Gallego) would be running to win.
Jeepers…it really is now a 14/7/365 election cycle as this missive hit the email box this morning:
Monday night on Chris Hayes, Ruben was asked if he was going to run against Senator Sinema and he made it clear: “I am a Marine and Marines prepare. That’s what I am doing right now.”
Preparation means being ready on day one.
Preparation means having the resources to run a winning campaign and…
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Hi again! Yeah, from your bookshelf! You seem well informed and I wanna know the type of stuff you read and might recommend. I don't even know what to tell you for my interests because I feel like I'm just begining. Sorry I'm young and dumb still haha.
#1 you're not dumb and #2 nothing to apologize for :)
Here's some books I've got on my shelves or that I've read:
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, Laura Bates
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, Katha Pollitt
Women, Race, & Class, Angela Davis
American Girls, Nancy Jo Sales
Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, eds. Julia Penelope and Susan J Wolf
Lesbian Studies, Margaret Cavendish
Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall
Against White Feminism, Rafia Zakaria
Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together, eds Joan Nestle and John Preston
Another Mother Tongue, Judy Grahn
Aimee & Jaguar, Erica Fischer
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought, ed. Briona Simone Jones
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
The Mary Daly Reader, eds. Jennifer Rycenga and Linda Barufaldi
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, eds. Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, George Chauncey Jr.
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society, Cordelia Fine
Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Father's Tongue, Julia Penelope
The Resisting Reader, Judith Fetterley
The Double X Economy, Linda Scott
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, ed. Roxane Gay
Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists, Joan Smith
Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin
The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women, Scott Stern
The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory, Marilyn Frye
Only Words, Catharine A. Mackinnon
Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution, Jennifer Block
Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts, Anne Llwellyn Barstow
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, Peggy Orenstein
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado-Perez
Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Values, Sarah Lucia Hoagland
We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement, Andi Zeisler
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, Adrienne Rich
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, Adrienne Rich
Feminism, Animals, and Science: The Naming of the Shrew, Lynda Birke
The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Susan Rubin Suleiman
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldua
Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery, Virginia L Blum
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins
Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality, Gail Dines
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Susan Faludi
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Marilyn French
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, eds. Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
Seeing Like a Feminist, Nivedita Menon
With Her Machete In Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians, Catriona Reuda Esquibel
The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture, Bonnie J. Morris
Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall, Christopher Nealon
The Persistent Desire: A Butch/Femme Reader, ed. Joan Nestle
The Straight Mind and Other Essays, Monique Wittig
The Trouble Between us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement, Winifred Breines
Right-Wing Women, Andrea Dworkin
Woman Hating, Andrea Dworkin
Why I Am Not A Feminist, Jessica Crispin
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women, Leila J Rupp
I tried to avoid too many left turns into my specific interests although if you passionately want to know any of those, I can make you some more lists LOL
I would suggest picking a book that sounds interesting and using the footnotes and bibliography to find more to read. I've done that a lot :) a lot of my books have more sticky tabs or w/e in the bibliography than in the text so I don't lose stuff I'm interested in.
Hope this helps!
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To tell you the truth, I am not a happy man. I am constantly plagued by life’s great questions and oppressed by my own ambitions for the future.
In the deepening hours of a night such as this, alone, facing the lamp, I feel the isolation in which men live, and I experience unbearable sorrow. At these times my brittle egoism seems to shatter, and the thought of others touches me deeply. I think of my friends and of days long past. But more than anything else, images of these people I have described to you come streaming into my mind. No, I see not the people themselves: I see them as figures within a much larger scene. They are part of their surroundings, part of a moment. I remember these people and from deep within me the thought wells up: How am I different from anyone else? Don’t we all receive this life of ours in a place between heaven and earth, only to return, hand in hand, along the same eternal track, to that infinite heaven? And when this feeling strikes me, I find myself in tears, for in truth there is then no self, no other. I am touched by thoughts of each and every one.
Only at these times do I feel such peace, such liberation, such sympathy towards all things. Only then do worldly thoughts of fame and the struggle for fortune utterly disappear.
—Kunikida Doppo, ‘Unforgettable People’ tr. Jay Rubin, in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories ed. Jay Rubin
#kunikida doppo#jay rubin#japanese literature#the penguin book of japanese short stories#2023 reads#mine#words
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It's no surprise that Donald Trump's mistrial request in the E. Jean Carroll civil rape and defamation case was denied the day it was filed. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday seemingly rejected out of hand the argument from Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina that he was being unfair. A Trumpian complaint if there ever was one, and Kaplan didn't appear to think there was much to it.
Yet, one of the items on Tacopina's laundry list of unfairness stood out as especially absurd. It dealt with literature, a controversial subject in the book-banning GOP these days. And it provides a lesson about one work Republicans might want to keep on the shelves.
Tacopina pointed to an exchange with Carroll on cross-examination about a reference in her book to sending all men to Montana for retraining. When he pressed her, Carroll pointed out that it was satire, suggesting that Tacopina was an idiot if he didn't understand that. Then Kaplan interjected to note that Carroll's satire comes from Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," a satirical essay from the 18th century that "proposed" poor Irish parents sell their children as food.
In his failed mistrial letter, Trump's lawyer argued that it was inappropriate for the Judge to chime in and provide this context. Tacopina's letter went further by actually going through the trouble of distinguishing between Carroll's and Swift's satires, observing that Carroll referred to men while Swift referred to children. The point, Tacopina wrote, is that it was inappropriate for the Judge to get involved because it showed favoritism.
Of course, Tacopina ran the risk of Kaplan's interjecting when he touched on such an obvious point. Indeed, Carroll's 2019 book is titled "What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal." The Swift reference is clear, and lawyers need to remember that the Judge is always the smartest person in the room.
Kaplan didn't need to weigh in on the literary point, but his doing so doesn't create a mistrial.
#us politics#news#msnbc#deadline: legal blog#Jordan Rubin#op eds#2023#donald trump#joe tacopina#e. jean carroll#tw rape#defamation#Judge Lewis Kaplan#jonathan swift#A Modest Proposal#What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal#mistrial
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Hello! I’m an intersex literature student in Uni right now looking to write an essay that deals with portrayals of intersex bodies in literature. I was wondering if you/your followers might have any recs on academic books/papers that touch upon this topic? Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
I'd read the last few chapters of Horlacher, S. (2016). Transgender and intersex: Theoretical, practical, and artistic perspectives (pp. 1-27). Palgrave Macmillan US.
As well as the first several chapters of Walker, M. (Ed.). (2022). Interdisciplinary and global perspectives on intersex. Springer Nature.
For the most part these are critiques of intersexist literature like Middlesex (🤮). There is a lot less writing about intersex representation done well, though quality representation does exist (e.g. books by intersex authors like Rivers Solomon and Bogi Takács). Most of that writing isn't peer reviewed - it's book reviews by intersex people, like Bogi's blog and the Intersex Book Club.
If your interpretation of "literature" includes nonfiction, I'd also read:
Ch 1 of Malatino, H. (2019). Queer embodiment: Monstrosity, medical violence, and intersex experience. U of Nebraska Press.
Ch 2 of Rubin, D. A. (2017). Intersex matters: Biomedical embodiment, gender regulation, and transnational activism. Suny Press.
Ch 7 of Horlacher, S. (2016). Transgender and intersex: Theoretical, practical, and artistic perspectives (pp. 1-27). Palgrave Macmillan US.
Hope that helps! I am assuming you have library access to all of these but DM me if you don't. :)
#intersex studies#asks#text#intersex#actually intersex#gender studies#queer theory#intersex literature
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🔎 YA Under the Radar Part 6 🔍
for a long time, I've been keeping (and eventually posting) lists of YA books I read that have received less attention than they deserve. it's been more than 12 months since I posted the last list in this series but I finally hit 50 the other day so here it is, the latest instalment of my YA Under the Radar series 😊
all of these books have less than 15,000 ratings on Goodreads, give or take, and were books that I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend. I've marked ones with queer rep with pride flag emojis and ones with disability rep with wheelchair symbols. be sure to check them out!
Vampires Never Get Old (ed.) by Zoraida Córdova & Natalie C Parker 🏳️🌈 ♿️
Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales (ed.) by Poppy Nwosu 🏳️🌈
How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow 🏳️🌈
This Poison Heart duology by Kalynn Bayron 🏳️🌈
All These Bodies by Kendare Blake
Slipping the Noose by Meg Caddy 🏳️🌈
Into the Crooked Place duology by Alexandra Christo
The Scapegracers series by HA Clarke 🏳️🌈
Lakesedge duology by Lyndall Clipstone
Clean by Juno Dawson 🏳️🌈♿️
Meat Market by Juno Dawson 🏳️🌈♿️
Wonderland by Juno Dawson 🏳️🌈
Stay Another Day by Juno Dawson 🏳️🌈♿️
The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake 🏳️🌈♿️
The Witch King duology by HE Edgmon 🏳️🌈
The Not So Chosen One by Kate Emery
Ghost Bird by Lisa Fuller
Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard 🏳️🌈
At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson 🏳️🌈♿️
The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson 🏳️🌈
The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson 🏳️🌈
Social Queue by Kay Kerr ♿️
Kiss and Tell by Adib Khorram 🏳️🌈
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger 🏳️🌈
What They Don’t Know by Nicole Maggi
Fix by J Albert Mann ♿️
The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo
The Killing Code by Ellie Marney 🏳️🌈
Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore 🏳️🌈♿️
Fraternity by Andy Mientus 🏳️🌈
Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz 🏳️🌈♿️
At the End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp 🏳️🌈♿️
Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses by Kristen O’Neal ♿️
The Woods Are Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins
Wider Than the Sky by Katharine Rothschild 🏳️🌈
Trouble Girls by Julia Lynn Rubin 🏳️🌈
Crown of Coral and Pearl duology by Mara Rutherford
Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass 🏳️🌈
The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers by Adam Sass 🏳️🌈
Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches by Kate Scelsa 🏳️🌈
Market of Monsters trilogy by Rebecca Schaeffer
Windfall by Jennifer E Smith
Field Notes on Love by Jennifer E Smith
Arden Grey by Ray Stoeve 🏳️🌈
Definitions of Indefinable Things by Whitney Taylor ♿️
Stars in Their Eyes by Jessica Walton & Aśka 🏳️🌈 ♿️
Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White 🏳️🌈 ♿️
The Chaos of Stars by Kiersten White
Henry Hamlet’s Heart by Rhiannon Wilde 🏳️🌈
Where You Left Us by Rhiannon Wilde 🏳️🌈
More of my rec lists can be found in my "book recommendations" tag
#book recs#book recommendations#booklr#bookblr#ya books#trcc original#i've been meaning to post this for weeks#got there in the end
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