The next several days will be filled with postmortems about the shocker among pro-Trump Latinos in Florida@realcpaz called it last week: https://t.co/yo2uOea6Cn John Hendrickson (@JohnGHendy) November 4, 2020
Yglesias/Vox on topic BEFORE the election
Some of us were writing about Trump’s resilience with Hispanic voters back in early July, without even the benefit of speaking to any real voters. https://t.co/d4K865LZ3n Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 5, 2020
Still the best opinion piece that explains rising nonwhite support for Trump. Left of center analysts often see nonwhites as victimized stereotypes, have ignored the data and refused to talk to nonwhites outside of the highly educated prep school bubble https://t.co/ZQjAjcsC1o
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The Iowa House on Wednesday, Mar. 14, 2018. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette) Peter Fisher
The snake oil salesmen who peddle tax cuts for corporations and the rich as the key to prosperity are at it again. In Sunday’s Gazette, John Hendrickson and Jonathan Williams repeated their annual mantra about Iowa tax policy. Let’s set the record straight.
Iowa is an average-tax state. Even before expensive tax cuts passed in 2018 to benefit the wealthiest, Iowans paid about 2.5 percent of their income toward income taxes, 2.34 percent for sales taxes, which earns us a rank of 20th and 21st, respectively, among the 50 states.
In 2018, Gov. Kim Reynolds and the legislature passed pro-growth tax reform that lowered income tax rates and broadened the sales tax base. Reducing tax rates, along with practicing fiscally responsible spending policies, is making Iowa more competitive and economically strong.
However, the annual report, Rich States, Poor States, describes how states across America continue to advance policies that help their taxpayers increase take-home wages and enhance their standard of living. This year, Indiana will once again lower its corporate income tax rate from 5.25 percent to 4.9 percent. Since 2012, Indiana has been gradually lowering the corporate tax rate from a starting point of 8.5 percent. Corporate tax rates vary greatly across the 50 states that tax business income, from the highest tax rate in Iowa of 12 percent to the lowest in North Carolina of 2.5 percent.
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President Biden will guide the US through the next four years and attempt to reunite a fractured country and repair damage done by the devastating Covid pandemic. Voters handed the former vice a legislative superhighway through Congress, which he will use to promote a progressive platform running counter to Donald Trump s. Mr Biden laid out his promises in an emotional inauguration speech flanked by former Presidents when he declared today was America s day .
Later on today, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. That achievement is all the more remarkable when you consider he was the oldest person to ever run for office and did so during a pandemic against an incumbent many expected would win a second term. But for millions around the world, it is remarkable for another reason too: Biden has a stutter.
It is estimated that at least one per cent of the population, both globally and in the UK, has a stutter. An even greater number, around five per cent, had one as a child. For the person who stutters, any form of public speaking, whether in the classroom or an office, is a source of dread. Performative, fast-talking jobs – say, a lawyer or a politician – tend to be low on the list of career choices, “President of the United States” just a bad joke. Yet Joe Biden has achieved all these things.