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Jacobin news July 13th 2020
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| The 1% are cheating us out of a quarter-trillion dollars in taxes every year. Jacobin news@jacobinmag.com via gmail.mcsv.net 12:36 PM (26 minutes ago) to me The 1% are cheating us out of a quarter-trillion dollars in taxes every year. The next time you hear conservative politicians insist they want “law and order,” hate “looting,” and believe America can’t afford new government programs, show them two landmark reports that emerged recently. The data in those analyses tell the story of conservative politicians letting billionaires and corporations brazenly evade laws and effectively loot hundreds of billions of dollars from the public treasury — all while those same politicians plead poverty to justify cutting the social safety net during a lethal pandemic. “With the money that these tax cheats owe, this year alone, we could fund tuition-free college for all, eliminate child hunger, ensure clean drinking water for every American household, build half a million affordable housing units, provide masks to all, produce the protective gear and medical supplies our health workers need to combat this pandemic, and fully fund the U.S. Postal Service,” said Senator Bernie Sanders, who requested the CBO study. “That is an absolute outrage, and this report should make us take a long, hard look at what our national priorities are all about.” Read more Here's the latest... Should Yale, bearing a slave trader's name, be renamed? Yes. Since Ivy League schools are engines of class inequality, we should first nationalize all the Ivies. Then Yale University can become UConn New Haven. The “cancel culture” debate is stale. But there are real threats to civil liberties in society today. The Left must claim the mantle of free speech, broaden its scope, and bring in the dimension of class. American leftists look to Canada’s more robust social-welfare state with envy. But all is not well north of the border: Canada’s richest families own 120 times their share of the country’s wealth. There’s never been a better time to introduce a wealth tax. When Steven Pinker insists that the world is getting better and better, much of his case is based on claims about declining global poverty. But a new report from the UN’s top poverty expert dismantles that argument, showing that global poverty has gone nearly unchanged over the last forty years. A Jacobin primer on democratic socialism Packed with great essays and dozens of illustrations by Phil Wrigglesworth, The ABCs of Socialism is a perfect primer on socialist thought. The ABCs of Socialism answers some of the most pressing questions of our age (“Will socialists take my Kenny Loggins records?”) in an attempt to explain and develop socialist politics. Pitched to a general readership without sacrificing intellectual depth, this is a great introduction for friends and family and worth a read for regular Jacobin readers too. Obviously, we don’t have all the answers, but this book was made to help tackle some of them. There's a reason The ABCs of Socialism is now in its fourth printing. Get your copy today for just $10. Jacobin Roundup is a weekly newsletter you can receive by email. Read Jacobin online Read Jacobin online Like us on Facebook Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Twitter Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. | |||||||||