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What a delightful question. Let me help. Europeans take four to seven weeks off because the law requires it. No rationing insulin. Just a functioning society run by people who occasionally represent the people who voted for them. Revolutionary concept, I know. Name one Republican who ran on genuinely helping working Americans. Just one. I have time. Your senators earn $174,000 a year. Several of them are worth hundreds of millions. You may want to sit with that arithmetic for a moment, because someone is clearly not doing their grocery shopping at Walmart. These are the people voting against your paid leave, your healthcare, your pension, then flying home on a Friday to tell you the Europeans are the problem. Meanwhile America runs 750 military bases worldwide on a Mastercard with $40 trillion on the balance and no plan whatsoever to pay it down. Not one trembling senator will touch the tax rates required to service that debt. Then came Iran. A sanctioned country with a fraction of your budget made the world’s most expensive military look like a very costly learning experience. You could have had the same quality of life as Europe. Your guys bought their fourth homes instead. Must be nice. It is. Enormously.

🚨 LABOR’S LANDMARK TAX BILL HAS PASSED THE SENATE AND AUSTRALIA’S PROPERTY, INVESTMENT AND SUPERANNUATION RULES ARE ABOUT TO CHANGE. The package, secured through a deal with the Greens, affects capital gains tax, negative gearing, trusts and self-managed super funds. Labor says the reforms will create a fairer tax system and improve housing affordability. But business groups warn the changes could discourage investment, reduce housing supply and add more pressure to rents, small businesses and retirement planning. This is not a minor technical adjustment. It has been described as one of the biggest tax changes in a generation and its consequences will be felt long after the political celebrations are over. The bill has passed. Now Australians must watch what happens to investment, rents, construction and confidence. Fairer reform or a costly economic experiment? #Auspol #Labor #TaxReform #NegativeGearing #CapitalGainsTax #HousingCrisis #AustralianEconomy

THE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT IS GETTING NERVOUS  The political establishment — Democratic and Republican — is getting nervous. So are the Oligarchs and the corporate media they own.   The world they dominate is beginning to shake beneath them. Change is coming.  And they don’t like it. What we saw on Tuesday in New York, what we are seeing all across the country, is that ordinary people are getting involved in the political process, are taking on establishment candidates, and are winning. What is particularly frightening to the establishment is that many of the candidates, and their supporters, are young. The future belongs to them and they want that future to look very different from what it is today. It’s not complicated. Progressives and democratic socialists are winning elections because the vast majority of the American people understand that status quo politics and policies are not working.  You don’t have to be a PhD in economics to know that in America today the very rich are getting much richer while the vast majority of our people are struggling to pay for the basic necessities — healthcare, housing, food, education and utilities. You don’t have to be a sociologist to realize that the younger generation will likely have a lower standard of living than their parents.  You don’t need to be a political scientist to understand that we have a corrupt campaign finance system that allows billionaires and their super PACS to buy elections, undermine democracy, and protect their privileged positions.  The American people, across the political spectrum, are rejecting the establishment’s  uber-capitalist ideology, value system and priorities.  They want an economy and a government that works for all, not just wealthy campaign contributors.  More and more Americans refuse to accept the current reality that: One man, Mr. Musk, owns more than three times as much wealth as the bottom half of our society.  That billionaires and large profitable corporations often pay an effective tax rate lower than truck drivers or nurses. They are demanding that the billionaire class starts paying their fair share of taxes. We are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right. They want Medicare for All.   Tens of millions of workers are earning starvation wages. They want to raise the minimum wage to a living wage and make it easier for workers to join unions. Big Tech and the wealthiest people on earth are aggressively pushing AI and robotics, the most transformative technologies in history, without public input. They want these technologies to benefit all, not just the handful of billionaires who own the industry.   Nearly 800,000 Americans are homeless, and more than 20 million households are spending 50% or more of their limited incomes on housing. They want a freeze on rent and the construction of millions of units of low income and affordable housing.