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Republicans Want Corporate Oligarchy. We Need Economic Democracy

Rashida Tlaib and Michael A McCarthy The Guardian
The GOP budget seeks vast cuts to Medicaid, food assistance and more. Instead, let’s build an economy for everyone. The Republican budget plan that passed the House last week calls for $4.5tn in tax giveaways for the ultra-rich and corporations.

Tidbits – Mar.6 – Reader Comments: Trump: Ambush in White House; War on Workers; Gut Medicaid; Spread Measles and Bird Flu; Techno-Fascism; Anti-Semitism in Oval Office; No More Medicare Telehealth After Mar 31; Stand Up for Science Mar 7

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Reader Comments: Trump: Ambush in White House; War on Workers; Gut Medicaid; Make Apartheid Great Again; Spread Measles and Bird Flu; Techno-Fascism; Anti-semitism in Oval Office; No More Medicare Telehealth After Mar 31; Stand Up For Science Mar 7

Republicans Prepare To Gut Medicaid

Paul Krugman Paul Krugman Substack
Republicans West Virginia helped put in power are preparing to impose savage cuts on a program that has literally been a lifeline for many in the state, in order to help offset the cost of huge tax cuts for high-income Americans... Populism!

Trump Sends Conflicting Medicaid Cut Messages

Ben Leonard, Adam Cancryn and Robert King Politico
Republicans are getting worried about how much they’ll have to cut from the popular health safety-net program, and whether the president will protect them from political blowback.

Tidbits – Sept. 19 – Reader Comments: Lies About Haitian Immigrants; Rev. Barber; Readers Disagree on Ranked Choice Voting; Leonard Peltier’s Continued Imprisonment; Govt Knew Ethel Rosenberg Not Spy; Find Affordable Child Care Near You; More…

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Reader Comments: Lies About Haitian Immigrants; Rev. Barber: Prophet for the Poor; Readers Disagree on Ranked Choice Voting; Leonard Peltier’s Continued Imprisonment; Govt Knew Ethel Rosenberg Not Spy; Find Affordable Child Care Near You; more....

When the State Comes for Your Estate

Safiya Charles Type Investigations
Medicaid was designed to provide healthcare for the poorest Americans. But after death, their relatives can be socked with massive bills, as one Charlotte family learned.
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