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Shirley Tillotson

I don’t care about wealth taxes. I DO care about a lot of things wealth taxes are supposed to do.I hate to be out of step with my progressive "tribe."

After the crisis comes the clean-up. There are parallels btwn the postwar years, 1945-52, & today.Now, it’s the CERB. Then, the hastily created mass income tax made a mess more

Tooze: “We talk ad nauseam about debt-to-GDP ratios and make complicated calculations of sustainability. But we know shockingly little about to whom we are indebted and where our interest payments

Speaking of she-cessions and care-work in strange times:The 1942 mass income tax met fierce resistance from married women war workers who had children. Like care workers today, they were under

Here’s what one kind of objection to state expansion looks like. From World War II. Thread, on why crisis-led state-building isn’t… so bad. In 1943, as soldiers died in combat