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Kid Berwyn

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9. Art Laffer of Trickle Down fame calls for the working poor to sacrifice...
Sat May 16, 2020, 06:52 PM
May 2020

...their lives.

Excerpt from In These Times:



Yet, in public discourse, the language of “reopening” is being largely conceded to the right. Art Laffer, the economist behind Reagan-era tax cuts, has received considerable media coverage calling for wages to be slashed and workers to be sent back to their jobs at risk to their lives. So has the Koch-funded Heritage Foundation, which has publicly flaunted its reopening “wish list” which excludes robust testing. We are not seeing similar air time given to any vision of a safe, public-health-focused reopening. Democrats have, by and large, failed to make this framing central to their strategy, much less go on the offense against the cynical and deadly GOP strategy.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/22527/trump-reopening-covid-coronavirus-republicans-contact-tracing-testing



The Greatest Generation beat these bastards once. BFEE brought them back. So we keep up the good fight, Celerity!

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