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January 28, 2019
Since you're asking that poster has "lurked" here longer than you.
Profiles are readable. Just click on it and you can see the join date.
January 27, 2019
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-11-07/young-voters-turned-out-in-historic-numbers-early-estimates-show
You sure about that?
YOUNG ADULTS MOTIVATED by social issues and dissatisfied with the Trump administration turned out in record numbers to vote in the 2018 midterms and backed Democratic candidates by historic margins, initial analysis shows.
Thirty-one percent of voters aged 18 to 29 cast ballots in the 2018 midterm elections, shattering turnout rates from the past quarter century, according to an estimate by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University. This year's turnout was at least 10 percent higher than for the 2014 midterms, according to the center's estimates.
Thirty-one percent of voters aged 18 to 29 cast ballots in the 2018 midterm elections, shattering turnout rates from the past quarter century, according to an estimate by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University. This year's turnout was at least 10 percent higher than for the 2014 midterms, according to the center's estimates.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-11-07/young-voters-turned-out-in-historic-numbers-early-estimates-show
January 27, 2019
These are the ones that have announced and the ones who may run. So far my top
2 have not announced so I'll go with Warren for now.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/us/politics/2020-presidential-candidates.html
January 27, 2019
Curious to know how many members of this group still post here? Not a poll, just a check in
for the Sanders Group.
January 24, 2019
to allgood33 for the link
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211722063
ELIZABETH WARREN PROPOSES ANNUAL WEALTH TAX ON ULTRA-MILLIONAIRES
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/24/elizabeth-warren-proposes-annual-wealth-tax-on-ultra-millionaires/?menu=1
SEN. ELIZABETH WARRENS presidential campaign has rolled out a proposal for an annual tax on wealth, becoming the first major Democratic candidate to follow a recommendation outlined in Thomas Pikettys blockbuster book Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
The proposal, according to two University of California, Berkeley, economists who are leading experts on wealth and inequality, would shrink the wealth of the superrich by $2.75 trillion over a 10-year period, while only affecting around 75,000 U.S. households.
A paper distributed by Warrens campaign announcing the proposal notes that the United States contains an extreme concentration of wealth not seen in any other leading economy. As UC Berkeleys Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman have demonstrated, the top 0.1 percent has had their wealth share nearly triple between the late 1970s and 2016.
Warren actually endorsed the concept of a wealth tax five years ago, in an interview with Piketty and The Intercepts Ryan Grim. Asked how a bill to tax wealth would sound after Piketty described it, Warren said, Oh, Im in, Im in, Im in in on the notion that we have to rewrite our tax code. She added that the tax code has to reflect the importance of work and people who achieve and people who accomplish, over being born into wealth.
SEN. ELIZABETH WARRENS presidential campaign has rolled out a proposal for an annual tax on wealth, becoming the first major Democratic candidate to follow a recommendation outlined in Thomas Pikettys blockbuster book Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
The proposal, according to two University of California, Berkeley, economists who are leading experts on wealth and inequality, would shrink the wealth of the superrich by $2.75 trillion over a 10-year period, while only affecting around 75,000 U.S. households.
A paper distributed by Warrens campaign announcing the proposal notes that the United States contains an extreme concentration of wealth not seen in any other leading economy. As UC Berkeleys Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman have demonstrated, the top 0.1 percent has had their wealth share nearly triple between the late 1970s and 2016.
Warren actually endorsed the concept of a wealth tax five years ago, in an interview with Piketty and The Intercepts Ryan Grim. Asked how a bill to tax wealth would sound after Piketty described it, Warren said, Oh, Im in, Im in, Im in in on the notion that we have to rewrite our tax code. She added that the tax code has to reflect the importance of work and people who achieve and people who accomplish, over being born into wealth.
to allgood33 for the link
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211722063
January 19, 2019
Pure deflection. You can't refute my opinion that the media reports what gives them ratings
and doesn't investigate the facts so you go with "you're just like Trump". By the way, the media going with their talking points instead of facts and investigations has been documented here time after time.
January 18, 2019
I knew as AG she supported asset forfeiture before being charged with a crime
and that was a big issue as far as I was concerned but was not aware of her stand on these other issues. Thanks for the information.
January 11, 2019
As a Latina I can only say... That's the fucking truth!
Best comeback in the history of comebacks.
https://twitter.com/CristobalJAlex/status/1083709582621454341
January 11, 2019
I'll be waiting till the end of time for you to prove what you and a libertarian hack are trying to
convince people that Bernie has said about immigrants.
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