We should all be "poverty abolitionists." "We could fund powerful antipoverty programs through sensible tax reform and enforcement. A recent study estimates that collecting all paid federal income taxes from the top 1 percent - not raising their taxes, mind you, just putting an end to their tax evasion (note from MW: the first thing the new GOP House did was undo provisions that gave the IRS the capacity to do that) - would add $175 Billion a year to the public purse. That's enough to more than double federal investment in affordable housing or to re-establish the expanded child tax credit. In fact, an additional $175Billion a year is almost enough to lift everyone out of poverty altogether." nytimes.com/2023/03/16/opini…

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Draft a People's Progressive Executive Action document and we'll create an online referendum
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The war on poverty has worked out about as well as the war on drugs.🤣
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Sounds nice but chances are 174 out of the 175 billion would go overseas to support the war machine 🤷🏼‍♂️ frankly I’d rather the billionaires keep it
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We could not give hundreds of billions in weapons to NeoNazis in Ukraine.
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Because they are Kristians not Christians. Christ was crystal clear about helping the poor and the sinfulness of accumulated wealth.
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poverty is the natural state of man. we began in caves. the question is: what creates wealth?
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We can be the pivot generation #AbolishPoverty