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[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/jamie-dimon-on-how-economic-inequality-fueled-political-polarization-and-what-can-be-done by Judy Woodruff 14/8/24 PBS NEWS] | [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/jamie-dimon-on-how-economic-inequality-fueled-political-polarization-and-what-can-be-done by Judy Woodruff 14/8/24 PBS NEWS] | ||
From trade to diversity to immigration, many U.S. corporations are navigating a divisive political climate on a range of issues that impact their businesses. The CEO of the nation’s largest bank, Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, has been speaking out about some of these. Judy Woodruff spoke with him in Bentonville, Arkansas, for her series, America at a Crossroads. | From trade to diversity to immigration, many U.S. corporations are navigating a divisive political climate on a range of issues that impact their businesses. The CEO of the nation’s largest bank, Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, has been speaking out about some of these. Judy Woodruff spoke with him in Bentonville, Arkansas, for her series, America at a Crossroads. | ||
=====Radical Taxation===== | |||
[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/radical-taxation/ by Vanessa Williamson 2022 DISSENT] | |||
This spring, legislators of both parties, from Connecticut to Georgia, responded to higher energy prices with “gas tax holidays,” temporary tax reductions for consumers that provide an additional windfall to the immensely profitable fossil fuel industry at precisely the moment when we should be ending the global warming economy. Thirty-six years after Grover Norquist first introduced the “taxpayer protection pledge”—by which thousands of legislators have committed to oppose all tax increases—American policymaking remains trapped in an anti-tax paradigm that leaves us unable to cope with the crises we face. | |||
