People make the same conceptual error about the regressivity of inflation as they do for VAT. In a vacuum, they’re both regressive, but in the context of pushing towards full employment or expanding the welfare state, the net outcome is much more progressive than the alternative

Dream Crushed Over Trivial Bullshit Represents Nation Better Than Gold Medal Ever Could bit.ly/3jG6VyO

finally, here it is. this is it.

The government subsidizes all of these routes and yet all of them operate at a loss. None of them have made consistent profits in their 70 year existence. So wasteful, inefficient, etc. 😔

Cool animation summarizing results, from EPI Comms team

This is a great marketing campaign

You allowed 20,000 workers to contract COVID on your watch (at least!), covered it up, and then fired the employees who spoke out.

Maybe sit this one out.

Some of the reactions on the homepage of Reddit to announcement that checks could hit this weekend

The left is trying to cancel Mr. Potato Head's glorious penis.

This idea that it's too cushy to be unemployed, or to be a single parent — or would be too cushy if we passed a child allowance so those families wouldn't live in poverty — is just awful. Dressing it up in technocratic language doesn't change that.

'Incentives matter.' Ugh.

i think the way it works is as long as the National Debt isnt paid off, every American automatically goes to Hell when they die, which Sucks

Correct

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

an illustration of how extreme income inequality has become:

BREAKING: Judge Preska, leader of the Chevron-funded Federalist Society, today set my misdemeanor trial for May 10th while refusing to free me after 524 days of house arrest.

No other person in U.S has spent even 1 day detained on a misdemeanor prior to trial.

Kevin Sorbo’s one-man show about what yesterday was like for Trump supporters, in four tweets.

At noon tomorrow, McConnell is expected to ask for Unanimous Consent to vote on the veto override of the $740 billion defense bill. Bernie will object until we get a vote on $2,000 direct payments. We can force the Senate to stay in session until the New Year. This is no bluff.

The House passed a $2,000 direct payment for working people. Now it's the Senate's turn. If McConnell doesn't agree to an up or down vote to provide the working people of our country a $2,000 direct payment, Congress will not be going home for New Year's Eve. Let's do our job.

This week, Biden:
–coached Dems to negotiate for a SMALLER relief bill
–got outflanked by Trump on direct checks
–rejected doing executive action on student debt cancellation, rejected Warren-Schumer on $50k
–walked back a day-one immigration promise
–named Bruce Reed deputy COS