#Universal

The American Families Plan will total $1.8T in spending & tax cuts:$1T spending --> $200B universal preschool, $109B free community college, $225B national paid leave$800B tax cuts --> permanent expansion
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We should lower income taxes for women.They should either enjoy a completely tax-free period of their working lifetime (ie. childbearing years) or income earned should be completely tax-free up to
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In this thread I will post quotes from Propaganda (1928) by Edward Bernays.Bernays (1891 – 1995), generally regarded as the father of public relations, applied the theories of his uncle,
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Digital court is in session.The virus has forced courts to finally move online. Personnel are being trained on basic computer skills like sorting emails by date or collecting e-signatures. And
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Almost no one is excited about the dichotomy presented but this election. I’m just voting to keep more people from dying under an openly fascist regime. Idk why or how
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—THREAD ON VACCINE PASSPORTS—It appears several EU govts including Ireland favour imposing a vaccine “passport”, making it difficult or impossible to travel internationally without proof of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. This is
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People forget that this exact dynamic caused Henry Ford to go from being a figure of near-universal reverence to the paranoid racist crackpot "Crazy Henry" of later life, taking his
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My dentist’s first question to me, knowing I’m an epidemiologist, was “when will this all be over”. Was super unsatisfying for us both for me to have to answer, “whenever
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So I think this article is raging dumpster fire of half-truths mixed with dangerous falsehoods. And as a canonist, I feel qualified to comment as someone having a relatively educated
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@RishiSunak @AngelaRayner @Keir_Starmer @AnnelieseDodds Please offer support for #forgottenLTD All those who are lucky enough to be furloughed might not have employment to return to once things settle as many
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This is precisely why we took a different approach in Scotland to ensure that vacant, empty, second homes weren't eligible for grant funding - so that we could help even
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I choose to interpret "genre giants" as "contributing foundational works to SFF," so I'm going with Le Guin, who used SFF to explore social and political issues when the genres
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If the premise of this article is that paying lip service to liberal theology is better than abandoning it altogether, then it only serves to highlight something the author would
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One thing that the pandemic has really brought home is how much I hate the word/concept "safe", when presented as a universal good. No, I don't want to be "safe",
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Good morning!Tornado is getting a big rework in May. It's aimed at increasing the skill cap at the highest levels of play. We don't want defensive strategies to come down
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Seeing people complain about Universal Credit. How low it is and how it's impossible to live on.Funny that, not a year ago the same people were adamant social security is
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