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13. TEB
Thu Nov 26, 2020, 10:41 AM
Nov 2020

We donated $ to the food bank last week but it will take more than individuals to fix the hunger when we have repugs doing everything they can to concentrate wealth with the 1%. So we give and vote.


‘They were billed as a “middle-class miracle” but according to a new book Donald Trump’s $1.5tn tax cuts have helped billionaires pay a lower rate than the working class for the first time in history.

In 2018 the richest 400 families in the US paid an average effective tax rate of 23% while the bottom half of American households paid a rate of 24.2%, University of California at Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman calculate in their new book, The Triumph of Injustice’

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