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Nonilex

#Trump's tariff formula confounds the world, punishes the #poor

Ridiculed for trade #tariffs on frozen islands largely inhabited by penguins, Trump's formula for levies has a serious side: it is hitting some of the world's poorest nations hardest.

The math is simple: take #US goods #trade deficit w/a country, divide it by that country's exports to the US & turn it into a percentage; cut that figure in half to produce the US "reciprocal" tariff, w/a floor of 10%.

reuters.com/world/trumps-tarif

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the mossy green

Brian Eno, cont'd >

> Q: Why do you think you should be paying more #tax?
>> BRIAN: I would like to live in a pleasant, comfortable #society, and to do that means you have to reduce the number of #poor people....I don't like the thought that half of the population are struggling, and I don't think there's any need that they they should be struggling. There are plenty of people that are quite well-off like me who would be happy to share their #money a little bit more than they do.
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Mark

Abbott skewers Starmer on cuts

Keir #Starmer has been urged to stop referring to his plans to slash the benefits budget by billions as being “moral”

Mother of the House Diane Abbott told Starmer, “there is nothing moral” about taking an axe to social security net

“This is not about #morality, this is about the Treasury’s wish to balance the country’s books on the back of the most #vulnerable & #poor people in this society.”

thenational.scot/news/25020810

The National · Diane Abbott skewers Keir Starmer on benefits cutsBy Hamish Morrison
#NotLabour#disability#illness
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Nonilex

#LeeZeldin’s move effectively ends 3 decades of work at the #EPA to try to ease the #pollution that burdens #poor & #minority communities, which are frequently located near #highways, #PowerPlants, #industrial plants & other polluting facilities. Studies have shown that people who live in those #communities have higher rates of #asthma, #HeartDisease & other #health problems, compared w/the national average.

#law#EnvironmentalJustice#PublicHealth
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Nonilex

The #Trump admin intends to eliminate #EPA offices responsible for addressing the disproportionately high levels of #pollution facing #poor communities, acc/to a memo from #LeeZeldin, the agency administrator.

In the internal memo, viewed by NYT, Zeldin informed agency leaders that he was directing “the reorganization & elimination” of the offices of #EnvironmentalJustice at all 10 EPA regional offices as well as the one in Washington.

#law #HealthEquity #Climate #USpol
nytimes.com/2025/03/11/climate

The New York Times · E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice OfficesBy Lisa Friedman
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Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:

#MatthewDesmond (Princeton University) in the #DailyShow:
youtube.com/watch?v=KoLN0YoErK

You get the impression that #poverty is made and continued by design in the #USA. And there is almost no incentive for the #billionaires to end poverty at all, although they could very easily by just stopping #taxfraud or collecting the taxes that are already due today. 🤯

#Money flows to the super #rich (which pay less #taxes!) instead to the people in need.

The #AmericanDream is an illusion.

What a shit country. What a shit system.

YouTubeMatthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap | The Daily ShowBy The Daily Show
#FoodStamps#SocialSecurity#Socialism
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Desert Trail

For #newmexico, block grants instead of #title1, #title2, and #title3 funding would cripple our state’s ability to #educate #students with the highest needs - indeed any New Mexican child. Rich states get richer, #poor states get poorer. If #schoolchoice really was about what’s best for kids, why is there never talk of negotiating #privateschool #tuition down from being at least 3x the per capita allocation of #publicschool? edweek.org/policy-politics/a-b

Education Week · A Bill to Kill the Education Department Is Already Filed. Here's What It SaysThe bill represents another attempt at a long-term Republican goal.
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SabiLewSounds

I haven't been self advocating here because it hurts too much to see folx who claim to want #facism to end to not do the bare minimum of helping keep the most #marginalized alive

People more marginalized than I have been left to die - proof is how many #antifacists and #anarchists still believe in this system designed with facist ideals

I'm #disabled and #brown and #poor that has made me a target for 41 yrs of my life and #TurtleIsland indigenous folx have been the targeta for centuries

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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

Fuck you, you fucking douchebag.

You want people to have more #children?

#Healthcare. #Housing. #Daycare. #Maternity and #paternity leave. #Child #tax credits. A #livingwage. Four day workweek. Etc.

Nah: deny #women the right to have an #abortion and make everyone #poor and desperate, right? Goddamned #plutocrat assholes.

Plus, you raised an absolute festering pustule of a son, #ElonMusk. So don't you dare lecture anyone about #parenting, Cruella.

Read Abolish Rent @JPHiLLLLLLL "The poor should have kids so my son's factories have workers” — incredibly normal mom Art Candee @ArtCandee 20h Elon's mom, Maye Musk, talks about how people should have kids even though they can't afford it. "You don't have to go to the movies, you don't have to go out to dinner." ELON MUSK'S MOM SHARES MESSAGE OF BEING A PARENT
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