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[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/radical-taxation/ by Vanessa Williamson 2022 DISSENT] | [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. | 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. | ||
=====Higher Rates Of Hate Crimes Are Tied To Income Inequality===== | |||
[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/higher-rates-of-hate-crimes-are-tied-to-income-inequality/ by Maimuna Majumder 23/1/17 FiveThirtyEight] | |||
The numbers we have are tricky; the data is limited by how it’s collected and can’t definitively tell us whether there were more hate incidents in the days after the election than is typical. What we can do, however, is look for trends within the numbers, such as how hate crimes vary by state, as well as what factors within those states might be tied to hate crime rates. | |||
