“A very thorough study by the Congressional Budget Office has shown that there is little relationship between tax rates and growth in gross domestic product. Some of the periods of our most explosive growth came while tax rates were highest, especially during the Eisenhower years, when the top marginal tax rates were at 90 percent.”
There are so many disturbing faulty assumptions-aka talking points- in this bill that just stick it to you and me. But the fight is not over.. it has to go through reconciliation between the House and Senate and be revoted on. WE MUST KEEP UP THE PRESSURE! (*when I was typing this I wrote "revote". Autocorrect turned it into "revolt". Hmm .. more accurate????)
Profound social and political change can only…
I’m excited to be doing election analysis on our local NBC news affiliate tonight starting at 8PM Eastern time. If you want to tune in you can go to https://www.newscentermaine.com. OR https://www.youtube.com/newscentermaine. If you do it through the youtube account it will alert you every time we go live..
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I'm helping Mass voters pass Ranked Choice Voting. Join me and my Brand New Congress slate mate - Isshane Leckey- for an Instagram Live - Saturday night at 5:30. Nothing scarier on Halloween than losing our democracy!
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