Wonderful example so assuming some social and economic provisions ought to be in the tax laws, lets think about tax credits. Every dollar of tax credit saves you one dollar. It doesnt matter what your marginal tax bracket is. So if you owe a thousand dollars and you get a thousand dollar tax credit, you dont owe anything. If you owe a million dollars, you owe a million minus 1,000. Now, the tax credits also should be refundable in many cases where they are social programs because a refundable tax credit like the earned income tax credit which says people who are working but dont earn a living wage are going to get extra money to help them have a living wage. And so if you make it refundable if you dont owe the income tax, youll get a direct grant. Both commissions said that about the Home Mortgage interest deduction, replace it by a credit. Congress ignored that. Finally, you might have the largest credit for people who need the help most and the least credits for people who need the h
Said as a firefighter with 53 cents. [applause] been unfairly just like to say that theres so many things you can do. Weve given awards to members of congress. They love to get awards. They want to be loved. We have taken ads out in their local newspaper which is really cheap and thank them for what they did. We persuaded the clinton to veto a very controversial liability bill by surrounding them with the dems. He was so happy to veto that bill even though he hated vetoing bills. So ill just say we also helped Robert Redford defeat to secretary gerald ford nominated in the governor of wyoming. The race that jc and we got so much media in bath that they continue the ms edition and prove to engage a fraud ahead of design. You never know where theyre going to be. We are the ones im on the side of the ledger and we are the ones who raised a key issues people care about. And we often win even though we have so little help. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you, john claybrook. If youre lo
"A good practice for the press would be to explain to their readers and to their viewers that what is coming from the right is totally false, that they are creating these conspiracy theories and this theory of politicized persecution for their own benefit."
"They're actually afraid that this information is going to get out and impact their profits, so that a lot of times their greenwashing or disinformation isn't going to work anymore."
"Universities have also ignored their faculty members, and this is why they have put up, I think, such a pathetically weak and collaborationist response to the current repression."