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When “National Security” Becomes a Weapon Against Social Security by Lawson Akhigbe
There is an old British political habit which deserves rather more scrutiny than it usually receives: when governments want the public to accept an uncomfortable policy, they wrap it in the Union Jack and call it national security. -
When “National Security” Becomes a Weapon Against Social Security by Lawson Akhigbe
There is an old British political habit which deserves rather more scrutiny than it usually receives: when governments want the public to accept an uncomfortable policy, they wrap it in the Union Jack and call it national security. -
When “National Security” Becomes a Weapon Against Social Security by Lawson Akhigbe
There is an old British political habit which deserves rather more scrutiny than it usually receives: when governments want the public to accept an uncomfortable policy, they wrap it in the Union Jack and call it national security. -
When “National Security” Becomes a Weapon Against Social Security by Lawson Akhigbe
There is an old British political habit which deserves rather more scrutiny than it usually receives: when governments want the public to accept an uncomfortable policy, they wrap it in the Union Jack and call it national security. -
When “National Security” Becomes a Weapon Against Social Security by Lawson Akhigbe
There is an old British political habit which deserves rather more scrutiny than it usually receives: when governments want the public to accept an uncomfortable policy, they wrap it in the Union Jack and call it national security. -
Trump Says It Out Loud: GOP Prioritizes War Over Healthcare, Childcare, and Survival
Trump openly dismisses healthcare and childcare as scams, revealing a GOP agenda that prioritizes war over people and shifts the burden to struggling states.
#childcare #EconomicJustice #federalBudget #gop #healthcareCuts #Inequality #medicaid #Medicare #militarySpending #ProgressivePolitics #RedStates #socialSafetyNet #statesRights #Trump https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oOc -
I had a dicussion about Ford and Trump and I drove the point that what made Ford successful were counter to Trumps policies. How the two are like apples and oranges. Ford increased pay, Trump has increased cost, while firing and reducing pay/purchasing power.
Increasing wages enhances consumer purchasing power, giving workers more disposable income to spend on goods and services. This boost in purchasing power drives demand, benefiting businesses across various sectors. Higher consumer spending stimulates local economies and creates a positive cycle of economic activity. Additionally, elevating wages leads to improved worker morale, reduced turnover, and increased productivity. When employees feel valued and adequately compensated, they are more likely to invest effort and loyalty in their jobs, contributing positively to a company’s bottom line and overall economic growth.
By increasing wages, fewer workers will rely on government assistance programs, which reduces the burden on taxpayers and allows government funds to be redirected toward infrastructure, education, and healthcare—areas that promote long-term economic stability. While tariffs may aim to protect domestic industries, they often result in unintended consequences, such as higher prices for consumers and retaliatory measures from trading partners. Tariffs can distort market dynamics, potentially leading to job losses in sectors reliant on global supply chains. In contrast, investing in wages fosters a more equitable and stable economy, as evidenced by historical data indicating that periods of rising wages often coincide with economic expansion, unlike tariffs which can lead to contraction and instability.
#WageIncrease #EconomicGrowth #ConsumerSpending #EmployeeMorale #Productivity #WorkersRights #EquitableEconomy #TariffImpact #SustainableGrowth #LaborMarket #BusinessStrategy #SocialSafetyNet #EconomicStability
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I had a dicussion about Ford and Trump and I drove the point that what made Ford successful were counter to Trumps policies. How the two are like apples and oranges. Ford increased pay, Trump has increased cost, while firing and reducing pay/purchasing power.
Increasing wages enhances consumer purchasing power, giving workers more disposable income to spend on goods and services. This boost in purchasing power drives demand, benefiting businesses across various sectors. Higher consumer spending stimulates local economies and creates a positive cycle of economic activity. Additionally, elevating wages leads to improved worker morale, reduced turnover, and increased productivity. When employees feel valued and adequately compensated, they are more likely to invest effort and loyalty in their jobs, contributing positively to a company’s bottom line and overall economic growth.
By increasing wages, fewer workers will rely on government assistance programs, which reduces the burden on taxpayers and allows government funds to be redirected toward infrastructure, education, and healthcare—areas that promote long-term economic stability. While tariffs may aim to protect domestic industries, they often result in unintended consequences, such as higher prices for consumers and retaliatory measures from trading partners. Tariffs can distort market dynamics, potentially leading to job losses in sectors reliant on global supply chains. In contrast, investing in wages fosters a more equitable and stable economy, as evidenced by historical data indicating that periods of rising wages often coincide with economic expansion, unlike tariffs which can lead to contraction and instability.
#WageIncrease #EconomicGrowth #ConsumerSpending #EmployeeMorale #Productivity #WorkersRights #EquitableEconomy #TariffImpact #SustainableGrowth #LaborMarket #BusinessStrategy #SocialSafetyNet #EconomicStability
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I had a dicussion about Ford and Trump and I drove the point that what made Ford successful were counter to Trumps policies. How the two are like apples and oranges. Ford increased pay, Trump has increased cost, while firing and reducing pay/purchasing power.
Increasing wages enhances consumer purchasing power, giving workers more disposable income to spend on goods and services. This boost in purchasing power drives demand, benefiting businesses across various sectors. Higher consumer spending stimulates local economies and creates a positive cycle of economic activity. Additionally, elevating wages leads to improved worker morale, reduced turnover, and increased productivity. When employees feel valued and adequately compensated, they are more likely to invest effort and loyalty in their jobs, contributing positively to a company’s bottom line and overall economic growth.
By increasing wages, fewer workers will rely on government assistance programs, which reduces the burden on taxpayers and allows government funds to be redirected toward infrastructure, education, and healthcare—areas that promote long-term economic stability. While tariffs may aim to protect domestic industries, they often result in unintended consequences, such as higher prices for consumers and retaliatory measures from trading partners. Tariffs can distort market dynamics, potentially leading to job losses in sectors reliant on global supply chains. In contrast, investing in wages fosters a more equitable and stable economy, as evidenced by historical data indicating that periods of rising wages often coincide with economic expansion, unlike tariffs which can lead to contraction and instability.
#WageIncrease #EconomicGrowth #ConsumerSpending #EmployeeMorale #Productivity #WorkersRights #EquitableEconomy #TariffImpact #SustainableGrowth #LaborMarket #BusinessStrategy #SocialSafetyNet #EconomicStability
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I had a dicussion about Ford and Trump and I drove the point that what made Ford successful were counter to Trumps policies. How the two are like apples and oranges. Ford increased pay, Trump has increased cost, while firing and reducing pay/purchasing power.
Increasing wages enhances consumer purchasing power, giving workers more disposable income to spend on goods and services. This boost in purchasing power drives demand, benefiting businesses across various sectors. Higher consumer spending stimulates local economies and creates a positive cycle of economic activity. Additionally, elevating wages leads to improved worker morale, reduced turnover, and increased productivity. When employees feel valued and adequately compensated, they are more likely to invest effort and loyalty in their jobs, contributing positively to a company’s bottom line and overall economic growth.
By increasing wages, fewer workers will rely on government assistance programs, which reduces the burden on taxpayers and allows government funds to be redirected toward infrastructure, education, and healthcare—areas that promote long-term economic stability. While tariffs may aim to protect domestic industries, they often result in unintended consequences, such as higher prices for consumers and retaliatory measures from trading partners. Tariffs can distort market dynamics, potentially leading to job losses in sectors reliant on global supply chains. In contrast, investing in wages fosters a more equitable and stable economy, as evidenced by historical data indicating that periods of rising wages often coincide with economic expansion, unlike tariffs which can lead to contraction and instability.
#WageIncrease #EconomicGrowth #ConsumerSpending #EmployeeMorale #Productivity #WorkersRights #EquitableEconomy #TariffImpact #SustainableGrowth #LaborMarket #BusinessStrategy #SocialSafetyNet #EconomicStability
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I had a dicussion about Ford and Trump and I drove the point that what made Ford successful were counter to Trumps policies. How the two are like apples and oranges. Ford increased pay, Trump has increased cost, while firing and reducing pay/purchasing power.
Increasing wages enhances consumer purchasing power, giving workers more disposable income to spend on goods and services. This boost in purchasing power drives demand, benefiting businesses across various sectors. Higher consumer spending stimulates local economies and creates a positive cycle of economic activity. Additionally, elevating wages leads to improved worker morale, reduced turnover, and increased productivity. When employees feel valued and adequately compensated, they are more likely to invest effort and loyalty in their jobs, contributing positively to a company’s bottom line and overall economic growth.
By increasing wages, fewer workers will rely on government assistance programs, which reduces the burden on taxpayers and allows government funds to be redirected toward infrastructure, education, and healthcare—areas that promote long-term economic stability. While tariffs may aim to protect domestic industries, they often result in unintended consequences, such as higher prices for consumers and retaliatory measures from trading partners. Tariffs can distort market dynamics, potentially leading to job losses in sectors reliant on global supply chains. In contrast, investing in wages fosters a more equitable and stable economy, as evidenced by historical data indicating that periods of rising wages often coincide with economic expansion, unlike tariffs which can lead to contraction and instability.
#WageIncrease #EconomicGrowth #ConsumerSpending #EmployeeMorale #Productivity #WorkersRights #EquitableEconomy #TariffImpact #SustainableGrowth #LaborMarket #BusinessStrategy #SocialSafetyNet #EconomicStability
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Whelp, I think it's safe to say political observers who thought the GOP-controlled US Senate might mitigate the homicidal awfulness of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are going to have to eat the L now; in the immortal worlds of Lando Calrissian, "this deal is getting worse all the time." What's worse than a nightmare class war theft and murder bill that will kill labor class Americans to make the uber-wealthy even richer? How about adding an *additional* billion dollars worth of tax breaks for fossil fuel companies boiling you and your children to death, courtesy of James Lankford, the Republican Senator from Oklahoma.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-big-oil-tax-giveaway
Senate GOP Adds $1 Billion Tax 'Giveaway' for Big Oil to Budget Bill
"That provision was secured by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), and the benefits would largely flow to companies based in his home state.
As Dayen wrote, the CAMT is "a fairly clean tax provision as these things go." It currently requires companies that bring in more than $1 billion to pay 15% of the profits they report to shareholders.
However, the Senate Republican draft would modify that calculation to account for "intangible drilling and development costs," which would allow companies to declare lower profits and put many of them below the threshold required to pay the 15% tax.
According to Bloomberg, companies including ConocoPhillips, Ovintiv, and Civitas Resources lobbied in favor of the bill. Lankford, meanwhile, received more than $546,000 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry—his top source of industry donations—between 2019 and 2024 according to OpenSecrets."
My favorite thing about the Trump-era fascist Republican party is the way their open hatemongering and authoritarianism makes talking about the usual corruption and pro-corporate malevolence they still engage in seem almost quaint. Wait, no, I actually hate that about the Trump-era GOP. Back in the time before you could eliminate entire departments of the government because "woke," what Lankford is doing here by securing tax breaks for gigantic polluters in his district who also donate to his election campaigns, would be described as "pork barreling" by a mainstream media far too polite to just admit this is bog standard bribery and corruption.
Of course, a billion dollars worth of tax credits is a pretty massive fucking barrel of pork, and as the article notes this isn't even the only billion dollar giveaway for oil companies Lankford is trying to engineer right now. Furthermore, this comes in addition to the obscene tax breaks the murderous GOP "Billionaire Bill" already gave giant oil companies and fossil fuel investors when it passed the GOP-controlled House. I guess now we know why the Senate instituted even deeper healthcare cuts after getting their hands on a bill they *still* can't get past the Senate Parliamentarian without just agreeing to ignore him.
All of which doesn't even factor in that the industry bribing Lankford for what amounts to a billion dollar subsidy is actively boiling the planet to death and driving an unfolding climate catastrophe that is already claiming disproportionately labor class American lives. In the end, what this obscene budget reconciliation proves is that at almost every opportunity, and in so many different ways its hard to actually keep track of them all, the Republican party is committed to just straight up killing people so the rich can get richer; and in the second Trump era, they don't really give a shit if you know that either. I'd suggest it's a bold election strategy, but if I'm being entirely honest I don't think a politically-empowered American fascist movement that has already justified militarized repression, ethnic cleansing, and fascist violence against anyone who opposes their political program, is likely to allow anything resembling a free and fair election to curtail their burgeoning power.
#GOP #Budget #USPol #ClassWar #Theft #Murder #BillionaireBill #BigOil #Oligarchy #ClimateCrisis #JamesLankford #Medicaid #SocialSafetyNet
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Whelp, I think it's safe to say political observers who thought the GOP-controlled US Senate might mitigate the homicidal awfulness of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are going to have to eat the L now; in the immortal worlds of Lando Calrissian, "this deal is getting worse all the time." What's worse than a nightmare class war theft and murder bill that will kill labor class Americans to make the uber-wealthy even richer? How about adding an *additional* billion dollars worth of tax breaks for fossil fuel companies boiling you and your children to death, courtesy of James Lankford, the Republican Senator from Oklahoma.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-big-oil-tax-giveaway
Senate GOP Adds $1 Billion Tax 'Giveaway' for Big Oil to Budget Bill
"That provision was secured by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), and the benefits would largely flow to companies based in his home state.
As Dayen wrote, the CAMT is "a fairly clean tax provision as these things go." It currently requires companies that bring in more than $1 billion to pay 15% of the profits they report to shareholders.
However, the Senate Republican draft would modify that calculation to account for "intangible drilling and development costs," which would allow companies to declare lower profits and put many of them below the threshold required to pay the 15% tax.
According to Bloomberg, companies including ConocoPhillips, Ovintiv, and Civitas Resources lobbied in favor of the bill. Lankford, meanwhile, received more than $546,000 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry—his top source of industry donations—between 2019 and 2024 according to OpenSecrets."
My favorite thing about the Trump-era fascist Republican party is the way their open hatemongering and authoritarianism makes talking about the usual corruption and pro-corporate malevolence they still engage in seem almost quaint. Wait, no, I actually hate that about the Trump-era GOP. Back in the time before you could eliminate entire departments of the government because "woke," what Lankford is doing here by securing tax breaks for gigantic polluters in his district who also donate to his election campaigns, would be described as "pork barreling" by a mainstream media far too polite to just admit this is bog standard bribery and corruption.
Of course, a billion dollars worth of tax credits is a pretty massive fucking barrel of pork, and as the article notes this isn't even the only billion dollar giveaway for oil companies Lankford is trying to engineer right now. Furthermore, this comes in addition to the obscene tax breaks the murderous GOP "Billionaire Bill" already gave giant oil companies and fossil fuel investors when it passed the GOP-controlled House. I guess now we know why the Senate instituted even deeper healthcare cuts after getting their hands on a bill they *still* can't get past the Senate Parliamentarian without just agreeing to ignore him.
All of which doesn't even factor in that the industry bribing Lankford for what amounts to a billion dollar subsidy is actively boiling the planet to death and driving an unfolding climate catastrophe that is already claiming disproportionately labor class American lives. In the end, what this obscene budget reconciliation proves is that at almost every opportunity, and in so many different ways its hard to actually keep track of them all, the Republican party is committed to just straight up killing people so the rich can get richer; and in the second Trump era, they don't really give a shit if you know that either. I'd suggest it's a bold election strategy, but if I'm being entirely honest I don't think a politically-empowered American fascist movement that has already justified militarized repression, ethnic cleansing, and fascist violence against anyone who opposes their political program, is likely to allow anything resembling a free and fair election to curtail their burgeoning power.
#GOP #Budget #USPol #ClassWar #Theft #Murder #BillionaireBill #BigOil #Oligarchy #ClimateCrisis #JamesLankford #Medicaid #SocialSafetyNet
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Whelp, I think it's safe to say political observers who thought the GOP-controlled US Senate might mitigate the homicidal awfulness of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are going to have to eat the L now; in the immortal worlds of Lando Calrissian, "this deal is getting worse all the time." What's worse than a nightmare class war theft and murder bill that will kill labor class Americans to make the uber-wealthy even richer? How about adding an *additional* billion dollars worth of tax breaks for fossil fuel companies boiling you and your children to death, courtesy of James Lankford, the Republican Senator from Oklahoma.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-big-oil-tax-giveaway
Senate GOP Adds $1 Billion Tax 'Giveaway' for Big Oil to Budget Bill
"That provision was secured by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), and the benefits would largely flow to companies based in his home state.
As Dayen wrote, the CAMT is "a fairly clean tax provision as these things go." It currently requires companies that bring in more than $1 billion to pay 15% of the profits they report to shareholders.
However, the Senate Republican draft would modify that calculation to account for "intangible drilling and development costs," which would allow companies to declare lower profits and put many of them below the threshold required to pay the 15% tax.
According to Bloomberg, companies including ConocoPhillips, Ovintiv, and Civitas Resources lobbied in favor of the bill. Lankford, meanwhile, received more than $546,000 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry—his top source of industry donations—between 2019 and 2024 according to OpenSecrets."
My favorite thing about the Trump-era fascist Republican party is the way their open hatemongering and authoritarianism makes talking about the usual corruption and pro-corporate malevolence they still engage in seem almost quaint. Wait, no, I actually hate that about the Trump-era GOP. Back in the time before you could eliminate entire departments of the government because "woke," what Lankford is doing here by securing tax breaks for gigantic polluters in his district who also donate to his election campaigns, would be described as "pork barreling" by a mainstream media far too polite to just admit this is bog standard bribery and corruption.
Of course, a billion dollars worth of tax credits is a pretty massive fucking barrel of pork, and as the article notes this isn't even the only billion dollar giveaway for oil companies Lankford is trying to engineer right now. Furthermore, this comes in addition to the obscene tax breaks the murderous GOP "Billionaire Bill" already gave giant oil companies and fossil fuel investors when it passed the GOP-controlled House. I guess now we know why the Senate instituted even deeper healthcare cuts after getting their hands on a bill they *still* can't get past the Senate Parliamentarian without just agreeing to ignore him.
All of which doesn't even factor in that the industry bribing Lankford for what amounts to a billion dollar subsidy is actively boiling the planet to death and driving an unfolding climate catastrophe that is already claiming disproportionately labor class American lives. In the end, what this obscene budget reconciliation proves is that at almost every opportunity, and in so many different ways its hard to actually keep track of them all, the Republican party is committed to just straight up killing people so the rich can get richer; and in the second Trump era, they don't really give a shit if you know that either. I'd suggest it's a bold election strategy, but if I'm being entirely honest I don't think a politically-empowered American fascist movement that has already justified militarized repression, ethnic cleansing, and fascist violence against anyone who opposes their political program, is likely to allow anything resembling a free and fair election to curtail their burgeoning power.
#GOP #Budget #USPol #ClassWar #Theft #Murder #BillionaireBill #BigOil #Oligarchy #ClimateCrisis #JamesLankford #Medicaid #SocialSafetyNet
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Whelp, I think it's safe to say political observers who thought the GOP-controlled US Senate might mitigate the homicidal awfulness of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are going to have to eat the L now; in the immortal worlds of Lando Calrissian, "this deal is getting worse all the time." What's worse than a nightmare class war theft and murder bill that will kill labor class Americans to make the uber-wealthy even richer? How about adding an *additional* billion dollars worth of tax breaks for fossil fuel companies boiling you and your children to death, courtesy of James Lankford, the Republican Senator from Oklahoma.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-big-oil-tax-giveaway
Senate GOP Adds $1 Billion Tax 'Giveaway' for Big Oil to Budget Bill
"That provision was secured by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), and the benefits would largely flow to companies based in his home state.
As Dayen wrote, the CAMT is "a fairly clean tax provision as these things go." It currently requires companies that bring in more than $1 billion to pay 15% of the profits they report to shareholders.
However, the Senate Republican draft would modify that calculation to account for "intangible drilling and development costs," which would allow companies to declare lower profits and put many of them below the threshold required to pay the 15% tax.
According to Bloomberg, companies including ConocoPhillips, Ovintiv, and Civitas Resources lobbied in favor of the bill. Lankford, meanwhile, received more than $546,000 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry—his top source of industry donations—between 2019 and 2024 according to OpenSecrets."
My favorite thing about the Trump-era fascist Republican party is the way their open hatemongering and authoritarianism makes talking about the usual corruption and pro-corporate malevolence they still engage in seem almost quaint. Wait, no, I actually hate that about the Trump-era GOP. Back in the time before you could eliminate entire departments of the government because "woke," what Lankford is doing here by securing tax breaks for gigantic polluters in his district who also donate to his election campaigns, would be described as "pork barreling" by a mainstream media far too polite to just admit this is bog standard bribery and corruption.
Of course, a billion dollars worth of tax credits is a pretty massive fucking barrel of pork, and as the article notes this isn't even the only billion dollar giveaway for oil companies Lankford is trying to engineer right now. Furthermore, this comes in addition to the obscene tax breaks the murderous GOP "Billionaire Bill" already gave giant oil companies and fossil fuel investors when it passed the GOP-controlled House. I guess now we know why the Senate instituted even deeper healthcare cuts after getting their hands on a bill they *still* can't get past the Senate Parliamentarian without just agreeing to ignore him.
All of which doesn't even factor in that the industry bribing Lankford for what amounts to a billion dollar subsidy is actively boiling the planet to death and driving an unfolding climate catastrophe that is already claiming disproportionately labor class American lives. In the end, what this obscene budget reconciliation proves is that at almost every opportunity, and in so many different ways its hard to actually keep track of them all, the Republican party is committed to just straight up killing people so the rich can get richer; and in the second Trump era, they don't really give a shit if you know that either. I'd suggest it's a bold election strategy, but if I'm being entirely honest I don't think a politically-empowered American fascist movement that has already justified militarized repression, ethnic cleansing, and fascist violence against anyone who opposes their political program, is likely to allow anything resembling a free and fair election to curtail their burgeoning power.
#GOP #Budget #USPol #ClassWar #Theft #Murder #BillionaireBill #BigOil #Oligarchy #ClimateCrisis #JamesLankford #Medicaid #SocialSafetyNet