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Every Republican in congress has chosen, over and over again, to let a criminal ransack the government for years in order to better pursue the higher cause of cutting the corporate income tax and making it harder for people to get health care benefits.
The tax story has a ton of new details but the broad contours have been visible from other reporting — Trump clawed his way back from the brink in Atlantic City by pulling off an audacious series of scams. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/6/13163220/trump-hotels-and-casino-resorts">https://www.vox.com/policy-an...
Shortly after winning the election he paid out a $21 million fraud settlement to victims of his fake university (and amazingly the fact that he was running a fake university was not the fraud — that’s apparently legal) https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/18/13681434/trump-university-lawsuit-settle">https://www.vox.com/policy-an...
He’s a very smart very successful criminal who’s been running scams of one kind or another for years — including one that took him all the way to the White House. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/20/14337724/watch-what-trump-says">https://www.vox.com/policy-an...
He emerged from a larger milieu that’s resulted from the American government’s larger decision to step away from investigating white collar crimes. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/13/18264082/paul-manafort-sentence-white-collar-crime">https://www.vox.com/policy-an...
But at this point people have largely made up their minds about Trump and what’s more effective electorally is to tell them nice things about Joe Biden, whose ideas remain not that well known. https://www.vox.com/2020/6/9/21284758/broockman-kalla-biden-ads-trump-ads">https://www.vox.com/2020/6/9/...
The good news is there’s a big agenda here:
— Double the minimum wage
— Double Pell Grants
— Triple federal funding for poor schools
— Quadruple federal housing aid
— A child allowance
— Huge investments in clean energy https://www.vox.com/2020/5/26/21257648/joe-biden-climate-economy-tax-plans">https://www.vox.com/2020/5/26...
— Double the minimum wage
— Double Pell Grants
— Triple federal funding for poor schools
— Quadruple federal housing aid
— A child allowance
— Huge investments in clean energy https://www.vox.com/2020/5/26/21257648/joe-biden-climate-economy-tax-plans">https://www.vox.com/2020/5/26...
