Jesse Eisinger

ProPublica Editor. “Chickenshit Club" author. @sarahellison's husband. “Succession” S3 consultant. GB Packers.Also @[email protected]

[Jesse Eisinger @eisingerj]

I'm now @jeisinger.bsky.social.

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[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Scott Pelley just issued a statement on Bari's remarks this morning:

[Jesse Eisinger @eisingerj]

Nick Bilton proves the old adage that it takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to confirm it.

[Jesse Eisinger @eisingerj]

DNI is well-understood to be a part-time job

[Shelby Talcott @ShelbyTalcott]

Trump taps Bill Pulte as Acting Director of National Intelligence — says he will also remain in his current roles as well (director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and chairman of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac)

[Robert Faturechi @RobertFaturechi]

New: A top White House aide intervened to get a $620 million Pentagon loan for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr.

“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved.

https://t.co/duvJ0cQ9bH

[David Uberti @DavidUberti]

Sad the Park Slope Food Coop discourse didn't mention the 2017 scandal when their pension fund invested in an Antarctic krill biotech stock in which a coop trustee was the largest individual shareholder

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

Hello @JeffBezos, since you question the results of our studies on the unfairness of the US tax system, please allow me to remind you of the main conclusions of our work, the most comprehensive research to date on this issue.

[Jesse Eisinger @eisingerj]

@TPCarney I strongly commend Haig-Simons to you. I'm not aware of much dispute about it.

Also, avg people already pay a wealth tax. It's called a property tax, and it's administered locally, not federally.

[Jesse Eisinger @eisingerj]

The facts:

-Bezos paid $0 fed'l income tax in 2007
-He paid $0 in '11
-Btn '14-19, his wealth grew by $99 BILLION and he paid $973 million in taxes.

Sounds like a lot but it's 0.98% of his wealth growth (which is his true income).

[Squawk Box @SquawkCNBC]

"People sometimes say that I don't pay taxes. It's not true. I paid billions of dollars in taxes," says @JeffBezos. "That's not going to solve the problem. You could double the taxes I pay and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens."

[Jesse Eisinger @eisingerj]

@TPCarney We didn't make this up. This is orthodox Haig-Simons, economic consensus on what income is since the 1920s. Yes, it went up or down in your e.g.'s.

The wealth-gain tax proposals would be progressive, and only attach at very high wealth/income.

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

Before there was “hipster antitrust,”there was Courtney Love in 1999.

[Jesse Eisinger @eisingerj]

Source:

https://t.co/M9XrLLoihT

[Tyler McBrien @TylerMcBrien]

BLANCHE: "The United States...is hereby FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing...examinations or similar or related reviews" against Trump "or related or affiliated individuals," including family members or related companies and trusts.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

[Jesse Eisinger @eisingerj]

Including here: https://t.co/B5YLE2Tveq

[Jesse Eisinger @eisingerj]

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[David S. Mitchell @dsmitch28]

As wealth tax debates heat up — including a possible ballot measure in California — how can citizens separate fact from fiction?

A thread on why taxing wealth is not only possible, but consistent with — and even necessary to restore — America's progressive tax tradition. 🧵

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Per the Dept of Justice’s official Justice manual …

Any “advance” warning of a raid to media (FOX News) required high-level approval

[Whit Stillman @WhitStillman]

A personal announcement.
"Adam Brody and Laura Carmichael to Star in ‘A Night at Claridge’s’ as Whit Stillman Sets Big Screen Return" (EXCLUSIVE) https://t.co/ARPzPMVilt via @variety

[Aaron Nagler @AaronNagler]

The Packers take an official draft crush for the third year in a row.

[Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell]

Amazon told employees to do their price fixing via phone: "an Amazon vendor manager told a vendor that pricing strategy and improving Amazon profitability was 'a delicate conversation for numerous reasons an probably best suited for a phone call/virtual meeting.'" Exchanges like these show price fixing was widespread and that Amazon knowingly and systematically violated the law.