This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state.
The strongest welfare states in the world (the Nordics) tax everyone, including nurses. And they give everyone universal healthcare, childcare, pensions, education in return.
When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut.
That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea. The real scandal isn't that this nurse pays $12k.
It's that Jeff Bezos pays $0.
Graham Platner: “In 1990 there were fewer than 80 billionaires in the US. Today there are over 900. Do you see a state of Maine that is 10x wealthier than 1990? Have our wages gone up 10x? Do we have 10x the schools? 10x the hospitals? No, we have less. The money went somewhere and it wasn’t down here. it was stolen from us in a rigged system”
@Charlie_Reports Why more people don’t make over $200k, maybe we’d have more capable and intelligent people in government roles if they paid better? Your tweet/story plays right into the rich people playbook- Have all the middle class people mad at each other while they run away with the rest.
Hey @hulu every night for the last 2 weeks I’ve started to type ‘summer house’ and your algorithm makes me get to letter 10 before it shows up. Call AI, what the hell are you doing!?!!?
Matt. I hope we can discuss my bill. Someone making 900k would pay an additional $2,917 because we raise the top tax brackets from 35 and 37 percent to 41 and 43 percent.
The median American family would indeed get an 85% tax cut.
So a married couple with two kids earning 150 k would get to keep an additional $10,360 of their money.
A Single Mom making 60K with one young child would keep an additional $5,693.
This $200M bank is backed by Parmesan Cheese and is lending people money for cheese
In Northern Italy, Credito Emiliano treats cheese like gold
The bank currently holds 430,000 wheels of Parmesan worth about $200 million
Real Parmesan takes two to three years to get ready
This leaves farmers with millions of dollars in premature products they can’t sell, while still needing to pay for cows, bills, and workers
By using young cheese as security for a loan, farmers get cash immediately
The bank provides up to 80% of the value upfront so these businesses stay running
While the loan is active, the cheese stays in high tech vaults where experts look after it
If a farmer can't pay, the bank simply sells the aged cheese for a profit