Atlantic: Warren Won’t Soak the Middle Class After All [Click] Employers won’t get to pocket their present healthcare contributions; they will have to contribute just like in Germany—because they profit from a healthy workforce.
Interesting. I'm guessing that small employers and freelances will be exempt from the tax, as small employers are currently exempt from the requirement to provide health insurance for their employees. And thinking about how people's out-of-pocket expenses can vary widely under the present system, it suddenly occurred to me that Penny and I are paying a combined $9000 to $10,000 a year out of pocket under current Medicare (Part B, Part D, and Medigap). That would presumably go away under Medicare for All.
Inside Trump’s Twitter World—NYT runs the data [Click] “… the most comprehensive view yet of a virtual world in which the president spends significant time mingling with extremists, impostors and spies.”
Just thinking about DT moving to Florida, presumably for protection from tax fraud prosecutions. Florida proved inadequate as a bolt hole for Al Capone.
NBC: Thirteen Candidates at Iowa Dem dinner. [Click] 13,000 in attendance, plus 1,500 at Bernie watch party; largest previous crowd was 9,000 in 2007—when Obama and Clinton were running.
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Atlantic: Warren Won’t Soak the Middle Class After All [Click] Employers won’t get to pocket their present healthcare contributions; they will have to contribute just like in Germany—because they profit from a healthy workforce.
ReplyDeleteCommon Dreams: With Detailed Pay-For Plan, Warren Touts Medicare for All as 'Bigger Than the Biggest Tax Cut' in US History [Click] Works for me. More detailed, I think, but about the same as what Bernie is proposing. Also about the same as what Otto von Bismarck got through the Reichstag in 1883. It’s worth noting that was the easiest and therefore first of Bismarck’s social legislation, not the last—unlike the US, which put Social Security first. By far.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I'm guessing that small employers and freelances will be exempt from the tax, as small employers are currently exempt from the requirement to provide health insurance for their employees. And thinking about how people's out-of-pocket expenses can vary widely under the present system, it suddenly occurred to me that Penny and I are paying a combined $9000 to $10,000 a year out of pocket under current Medicare (Part B, Part D, and Medigap). That would presumably go away under Medicare for All.
DeleteThat shouldn't be too hard to take--even paying income taxes on it.
DeleteSmugglers Cut Through Sections of Trump’s Border Wall [Click] Getcher tools at Home Depot!
ReplyDeleteInside Trump’s Twitter World—NYT runs the data [Click] “… the most comprehensive view yet of a virtual world in which the president spends significant time mingling with extremists, impostors and spies.”
Des Moines Register on the Dem dinner [Click] Not surprisingly, the best review I have read.
WaPo: WH Record Of Trump-Zelensky Call Put Words In Ukrainian Prez’s Mouth, Official Testified [Click] I’d say that Vindman ought to be considered for the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
All the latest on the Northern Snakehead! [Click] Fishzilla it ain’t.
Meet Erika the Red: Viking women were warriors too, say scientists [Click]
Cold mass-produced hamberders aren’t enough to lure Nationals pitcher to the White House. [Click]
The Hubble constant: a mystery that keeps getting bigger [Click] Ah, good fun!
Just thinking about DT moving to Florida, presumably for protection from tax fraud prosecutions. Florida proved inadequate as a bolt hole for Al Capone.
ReplyDeleteThinking further, Al Capone also suffered from progressive mental decline.
DeleteSeems like a lot of people with mental decline like Florida, lol!
DeleteNow that you mention it, Rash Limburger hangs out down there, doesn't he?
DeleteI suppose that Trump’s Twitterverse, as reported by the NY Times, [Click] is the source of this nonsense about Ukraine reported by the Washington Post. [Click]
ReplyDeleteOh, there wasn't any readily noticeable smoke in the air here today.
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DeleteTrump Booed at Madison Square Garden [Click]
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DeleteJust saw this lede--haven't yet seen the video:
ReplyDeleteSNL devotes cold open sketch to 2020 Democratic Party front-runner Elizabeth Warren
Here it is. [Click] It has its moments.
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