About universal healthcare, free college & cancelling college loans, many ask how we can pay for it. We begin by repealing huge tax cuts to richest individuals & corps, plus absurd subsidies. $27B last year to fossil fuel companies?! Amazon made $100B & paid 0 in federal taxes?!
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If you want to go toe-to-toe with Elizabeth Warren you will lose with both of you showing you don't understand how taxes work, how businesses work, and how the international economy works. You are not guaranteed a spot on the debate podium. This sort of post may keep you off it.
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If only I knew how taxes work, businesses work & the international economy works. Since 12,000 people starve in the world each day, 1% of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 90%, & the planet itself is in peril, I am very eager to understand how to perpetuate that system.

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I knew you were going to say that! Yes, I understand. And I also understand the scourges that have grown and that remain, under that system. Nothing I said in my original tweet disparages the high side of capitalism when it is tethered to an ethical center.
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I've paid double for my #studentloans & I still owe $13,000 even though I've been making payments since 2001. I've paid twice as much, if not more, than someone who had the cash up front to pay for their college education. We need to support & encourage #highereducation
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That system has brought more people out of poverty than any other. It isn't perfect. The question you want is: how do I bring the remaining people out of poverty. Some are Syrians and Libyans impoverished by war; some Rohingyas displaced by racism.
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Bingo
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Hahaha! @marwilliamson Answers like that will get you in the debates!
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How many starve in the US anually? Mixing global and national numbers is misleading