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Democratic Primaries

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TheRealNorth

(9,481 posts)
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 04:44 PM Dec 2019

I just saw an article on Klobuchar's worker retraining proposal [View all]

Amy Klobuchar is saying she wants to give tax cuts to help workers that lose their job through automation.

How are tax credits going to help someone that lost their job and is either making no income or is making so little that they probably are not paying much in income tax. There was not a lot of detail in the reporting.

If the tax credits instead go to a company willing to emply/retrain the employee, I can't help but see this as another give away to corporations where we will soon be bankrolling all their worker training programs.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
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