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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Replying to @DavidNJ
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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But that is the solution you are looking for. And to handle the poverty you want to solve you would need a sub-Saharan focus. Not an area that is easy for the US to influence. It is a focus of Ivanka (who has an article on CNN today). Have you talked to her?
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