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Roll Back Republican Tax Cuts!
 Congress is debating how much money to give to corporations and average Americans to try to blunt the economic impact of this pandemic. Republicans have repeatedly blocked or reduced efforts to get more money to individuals at the low-end of the economic scale, saying that we can't afford to spend this much money. But those same Republicans enthusiastically voted for a $1.5 trillion tax cut for billionaires and big corporations just two years ago. Shouldn't any efforts going forward begin by repealing the Trump tax cut? And, while we're at it, repealing the Bush tax cuts and the Reagan tax cuts and taking us back to an economy that actually worked for everyone? -Thom
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Roll Back Republican Tax Cuts!!
Quote: " Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people." - Andrew Mellon.
Quote: " Iran is facing a catastrophic toll from the coronavirus pandemic. U.S. sanctions should not be contributing to this humanitarian disaster. As a caring nation, we must lift any sanctions hurting Iran's ability to address this crisis, including financial sanctions. https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1240245136111656961" - Bernie Sanders.
Hour Two: Norway's PM Shows Us All How to Talk to Kids About Covid-19
Quote: " There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains." - Teddy Roosevelt.
Hour Three: Anything Goes Friday! Thom Takes Your Calls / PLUS, How Vegas Does Social Distancing!!
Speech: " First Inaugural Address", Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 4 March 1933. " Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Quote: " America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill." - Ronald Reagan.
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Here's my idea for helping those who lose income because of the corona virus. Have the Social Security Adminitration dispense zero percent interst credit cards to all those who lost income. The credit limit would be determine by their last reported income to Social Security, and be renewable like pay periods or monthly. Employees and employers would be eligible. When the crisis is over and people return to work and business gears back up, the loan would be repaid by payroll deductions. The minimum payment would be determined by peoples' income at the time so as to not create an undue burden while they are trying to return to normalcy. The Social Security Administration does an amazing job tracking all of us, where we live, where we work, how much we make, and in assigning benefits and getting them to people who deserve them. They would be the perfect agency to do this. The current proposal, whcih could cost two to four trillion in giveaways will blow up the debt. At the same time Republicans are calling for a holiday on payroll deductions to Social Security and Medicare. The first will blow up the national debt and the second will short Social Security and Medicare. Aside from possibly being a veiled attempt to buy voters, I suspect both will be used later to try to justify the cuts to Social Security and Medicare President Trump and Senator McConnell have called for in the future.