We should all be "poverty abolitionists."
"We could fund powerful antipoverty programs through sensible tax reform and enforcement. A recent study estimates that collecting all paid federal income taxes from the top 1 percent - not raising their taxes, mind you, just putting an end to their tax evasion (note from MW: the first thing the new GOP House did was undo provisions that gave the IRS the capacity to do that) - would add $175 Billion a year to the public purse.
That's enough to more than double federal investment in affordable housing or to re-establish the expanded child tax credit. In fact, an additional $175Billion a year is almost enough to lift everyone out of poverty altogether."
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The newest target of the extremist authoritarian movement in this country is CHILD LABOR LAWS!
First Arkansas, now Iowa.
Things are moving in the wrong direction.
We need to turn this around.
#ANewBeginning
Only in America do we freely without question give billions away for no reason at all to companies already making billions in profit, but somehow find it a controversial subject whether or not we should feed hungry children.
If children only sharpen their brains at school, there’s no guarantee they won’t go on to make trouble. To balance their keen brains, they need a warm heart. The more compassionate they learn to be, the more useful members of society they’re likely to become.