It is tuesday, so i must be talking about, you guessed it, project 2025. Digging through this 900page tome is my work until election day. Then theres this other part, cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthiest among us. Now, today the progressive think tank, center for American Progress, released an analysis of what project 2025s tax plan would actuallys look like for Americas Bank accounts if trump enacted it. The top lines in this thing are amazing. According to the center for American Progress project 2025s tax plan would cut taxes for households making more than 10 million a year by an average of 2. 4 million a year, which is great news for the hyperwealthy, but what about for the rest of america . Check out this chart. This is a visualization of the added tax burdensu for a middle class a married couple with two c children under project 2025s tax plan. Under the plan families by that description that make anywhere between 35,000 a year and 170,000 a year would all see their
Until election day. I have read it to you do not have to. It has plans for every aspect of the federal government, mostly shrinking it except where it allows the government to control the lives of the citizens. And then there s this other part about cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthiest. Today center for american progress released an analysis of what project 2025 tax plan would actually look like for america s bank accounts it trump enacted it. Top lines are amazing. According to them, the tax plan would cut taxes for households making more than $10 million a year. By an average of $2. 4 million a year. That s great news for the hyper wealthy. What about the rest of america? this is a visualization of the added tax burden for a middle class a married couple with two children under plan. Families by that description that make $35,000 a year and $170,000 a year would all see taxes go up. For example a married couple making $80,000 a year would see nearly $2000 more in federal
Bader ginsburg who died friday night. She died on the eve of the jewish new year, the first jewish woman on the Supreme Court and a very interesting thing about individuals who die right before the new year. They say they suggest very righteous people die at the very end of the year because they were needed until the very end. Under jewish tradition those who die on the new year holiday, a title given to the righteous and saintly. Certainly Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg was entitled to this honor, being righteous and saintly. At her confirmation hearing she talked about her immigrant experience was her father was a jewish immigrant, her mother was a secondgeneration american, she talked about American Values and then she said what has happened over me could only happen in america and then she spent her entire career protecting those values that make america a great nation it is in the reason people come here in order to reach their full potential. It guided her well in her public service
This is an institution that rests on the trust and reverence of the American People. Losing that trust and reverence is dangerous is dangerous. Its dangerous for millions of people who will lose the Affordable Care act protections. Its dangerous for the women who could lose their right to choose and all of us who do not want to turn back a half a century of progress. Its dangerous for our economy at a time when American Workers and consumers find themselves at the mercy of corporations that have grown larger and more powerful than at any other time since the gilded age. Its dangerous for the future of our planet and safety of our climate, at a time when the west is burning, seas are rising, and the earth is warming faster than ever before. And, quite frankly, its dangerous for our democracy. We owe the American People a voice and a decision that will shape the course of history for generations. And we owe the memory of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her seat on the Supreme Court more than jus
Statement from me and from mr. Cole then well go tow our distinguished witnesses. Today the rules committee will hold a hearing to discuss how the constitution separated powers between the legislative and executive branches and how the balance of power between these branches has shifted over time. We are doing this in the hopes of finding concrete Bipartisan Solutions to better ensure congress is playing the role our nations founders envisioned. Thats a lot, i know. And while a constitutional debate may be fun for law students and legal scholars and mr. Raskin [ laughter ] the it wasnt fun when i was yeah. For the rest of us, it could feel a little in the weeds. So, so for the rest of us, let me simplify. You know, we throw around the phrase, the peoples house, a lot around here, but this really is but this really is about whether we remain the institution that our nations founders created to be the voice of the people. The constitution entrusts congress with deciding how to spend fede