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Imagine being a Democrat and being to the right of Mitt Romney on taxes.
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Mark Rickling
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Mark Rickling
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The worst, full of passionate intensity. Tweets my own. Formerly @4TaxFairness and @SEIU. #DCU and #ADRV
Washington, DC Katılım Şubat 2010
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An attempt by @mschlapp to hype up the CPAC crowd goes horribly wrong —
"How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?"
[cheers]
"That was the wrong answer..."
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Republicans love to talk about the debt, but all they do is spike it. Today they are holding a secret meeting with Trump regime on how to force through the first installment on financing his reckless war –borrowing another $200 billion.
Republicans refuse to hold a single public hearing on any aspect of this war and the bill will only grow as we are in week 4 of Trump’s supposed 4-5 week war. No end in sight as taxpayers face the prospect of another $2 trillion war in the Middle East and more lost lives.
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BREAKING: Every package that arrives at your front door will soon have an 8% Trump War Tax.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
BREAKING: USPS will impose its first-ever surcharge on packages — an 8% fee to cover the rising cost of fuel.
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Two-thirds of car sales in Europe are now EVs indexbox.io/blog/european-… Trump is determined to give the U.S. a commanding position in an antiquted technology!
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I’m often asked to describe a typical day in Congress. Well, there really isn’t a typical day. While not all are as crowded as today, many parts of each day usually are. So fortunate that Central Texans have given me the opportunity to deal with such a broad range of important issues.
After a day like this, I’m not thinking about next year, I’m thinking about tomorrow and the next day, and each week in which I can join with others in the continued struggle to save our democracy and see that a little fairness peeks through all of the ongoing wrongdoing.
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This is an embarrassing error by the WaPo editorial board. Under no definition is it true that Sweden spends less than 1% of GDP on public pensions. At minimum, it is 7.8% of GDP.
James Medlock@jdcmedlock
This chart is misleading. Social security is middle of the pack when it comes to high end benefits. Here's a standardized comparison at 200% of the average wage, including mandatory social insurance. A high earning French couple would get more than an American one.
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@RichardRubinDC This is the same guy who claimed OBBBA wouldn’t add to the deficit.
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But also he said the expectation is that the whole package is deficit neutral, which, if it holds, makes a tough sell for items on any tax cut wish list.
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I asked Arrington today whether to expect tax stuff in the second bill.
He mostly deferred to Smith and mentioned just one particular policy — more efforts to prevent improper EITC payments.
Andrew Lautz@andrew_lautz
I don't think it's likely Recon 2.0 includes tax proposals, but comments like these from Pfluger (RSC chair) make you wonder... I was very surprised by the number and variety of tax proposals in the RSC Recon 2.0 framework:
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Practically everything he found was price-gouging from contractors or outsourcing. The mindbending part of DOGE was that it was going to increase public spending by cutting public staff. Building state capacity saves money.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do. That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap. Here’s some of what we found.
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GOP Senator admits Trump is the reason for TSA shutdown, long airport lines:
"The Democrats have offered to open up everything but ICE. ... Senator Thune submitted that to President Trump. As is his right, he said 'No deals with the Democrats.' It would have worked. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the President said 'No deal.'"
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According to the NYT-Siena poll--widely recognized as the gold standard of published public opinion polls--about 2% of voters say taxes are the thing they worry the most about affording.
Something to think about when weighing how to allocate dollars in a legislative agenda.
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#Spain - Do you remember this great video?
After the far-right VOX leaders came to the stadium to watch a match, Rayo Vallecano fans washed the Vallecas Stadium from top to bottom.
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Twenty years before Donald Trump was posting AI images of himself as a king, the internet was learning how to meme by exaggerating the masculine superiority of Chuck Norris.
What began innocently with "Chuck Norris Facts" has evolved into MAGA’s empire of slop. jacobin.com/2026/03/chuck-…
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According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Trump's Big Ugly Bill -- which primarily benefits big corporations and the wealthiest few -- will saddle Space and Treasure Coast families with an additional $4.7 TRILLION in government debt. cbo.gov/publication/62…
Congressman Mike Haridopolos@RepHaridopolos
Real money back in your pocket. I outlined how Republicans' tax plan is helping Space and Treasure Coast families today and strengthening their future. Read my op-ed ⬇️ floridatoday.com/story/opinion/…
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👀👀Important essay detailing how significant parts of the Democratic coalition have come to embrace middle class tax cuts as the path forward. [Spoiler alert: it's not.] open.substack.com/pub/mikekoncza…
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Some 🔥🔥🔥from @ppi’s @BudgetBen on recent Democratic middle class tax cut proposals:
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…
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Republicans refuse hearings on Trump’s War?
Pretty solid sign they know what a disaster it is.
nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
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IRAN - was there an imminent threat? I asked @SpeakerJohnson about fellow Republican Joe Kent's letter resigning as counterterrorism director and writing that "Iran posed no imminent threat".
Johnson gave strong pushback -- see below.
Jake Sherman@JakeSherman
This is as far as @SpeakerJohnson has gone on Iran: “Had the president waited [to attack iran], I am personally convinced that we would have mass casualties of Americans, service members and others, and our installations would have been dramatically damaged.”
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Marc Andreessen is a good example of why a lot of traditional societies around the world had a dim view of men of commerce.
David French@DavidAFrench
This isn’t just a little bit wrong. It’s spectacularly wrong. Can we please stop believing that wealth — even vast wealth — grants a person any particular historical, moral, or cultural insight?
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