Tuesday 29 June '21 show notes

  • Trickle-Down Economics Isn't Even a New Con
  • Right Wingers Support beating Cops with a Flag, But are Outraged When Someone Turns Their Back to the "Anthem," About Racism?
  • Why Aren't We talking About Vaccine Passports That Protect People and the Economy...For Real?
  • How Deregulation Has Harmed Condominiums
  • How Can We Stop the Morbidly Rich From Tanking Democracy? - Chuck Collins, Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, Director of the Institute for Policy Studies' Program on Inequality and the Common Good and the Co-Editor of Inequality.org / Author of the new book, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions
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Trickle-Down Economics Isn't Even a New Con
Thom plus logo America needs to solve it's parasitic billionaire problem or our democracy will continue to crash & burn.

America has to reinvent our understanding of economics after 40 years of living under a tax-cutting, austerity-imposing, Republican-promoted trickle-down Reaganomics scam and return to a Keynesian system that still works in those countries like Norway, New Zealand or Denmark that never adopted "austerity."

The core idea of Reaganomics is that if we give huge tax cuts and multi-billion-dollar subsidies to billionaires and giant corporations, that will "incentivize" these "job creators" to expand the economy and raise prosperity all around for everybody.

In fact, all those giant corporations and billionaires have done is put all that cash in their money bins and use it to buy 400-foot yachts and rocket rides into outer space…while destroying unions and holding down wages on working-class people.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
Tuesday's Daily Stack Daily Stack
Hour One: Trickle-Down Economics Isn't Even a New Con
Article: "Trickle-Down Economics Isn't Even a New Con" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich" by David Hope, Julian Limberg.
Article: "55 Corporations Paid $0 in Federal Taxes on 2020 Profits" by Matthew Gardner, Steve Wamhoff.
Article: "GOP-led Arizona Legislature OK’s $1.9B income tax cut" by Jonathan J. Cooper and Bob Christie.
Article: "Panic of 1896" by Armstrong Economics.
Article: "George H. W. Bush's Voodoo Rhetoric" by Brian Domitrovic.
Article: "Stop H.R. 1 -- "For the Politicians" Act" by Sarah Anderson.
Article: "Medicare (United States)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.
Right Wingers Support beating Cops with a Flag, But are Outraged When Someone Turns Their Back to the "Anthem," About Racism?
Tweet: "Several people got on to a scaffolding outside Senate, took it to second floor, which looked like the area where McConnell’s office is located, and started banging on windows" (dropped an American flag, held up a Trump flag) by Igor Bobic.
Law: Posse Comitatus Act (1878).
Article: "National debt of the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Prometheus" by Wikipedia.
Article: "2011 military intervention in Libya" by Wikipedia.
Speech: "Farewell Address", by Dwight David Eisenhower, January 17, 1961 (transcript). "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex."
Quote: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." - Thomas Jefferson.
Article: "‘No Labels' Needs A Warning Label" by Rep. Mark Pocan.
Article: "Problem Solvers Caucus" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin.

Hour Two:Why Aren't We talking About Vaccine Passports That Protect People and the Economy...For Real?
How Deregulation Has Harmed Condominiums
Article: "Engineer Warned of ‘Major Structural Damage’ at Florida Condo Complex" by Mike Baker, Anjali Singhvi and Patricia Mazzei.
Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.
Speech: "New Nationalism Speech" by Theodore Roosevelt, August 31, 1910 (square deal).
Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.
Article: "What to Know Before Buying a Condo" by Diane Hamilton.
Article: "Consequences of Not Having Cash Reserves" by Condominium Associates.

Hour Three: How Can We Stop the Morbidly Rich From Tanking Democracy?
- Chuck Collins, Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, Director of the Institute for Policy Studies' Program on Inequality and the Common Good and the Co-Editor of Inequality.org / Author of the new book, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions @Chuck99to1 @IPS_DC
Article: "Silver spoon oligarchs: How America’s 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality" by Chuck Collins, Joe Fitzgerald, Helen Flannery Omar Ocampo, Sophia Paslaski, Kalena Thomhave.
Article: "Abigail Disney" by Wikipedia.
Article: "MacKenzie Scott" (formerly Bezos) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Growth Management Act" by MRSC.
Site: Tom Steyer.
Article: "Michael Bloomberg" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kyrsten Sinema" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Should America Outlaw Homelessness?" by Thom Hartmann.
Facebook: "Cumberland County Sewer Rate Watch" by Jocelyn Sawyer.
Article: "Washington State Records" by Office of the Washington State Climatologist.
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