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[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/less-work-more-time-universal-basic-income-feminist-utopia/ by Madeleine Schwartz 25/9/15 DISSENT] | [https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/less-work-more-time-universal-basic-income-feminist-utopia/ by Madeleine Schwartz 25/9/15 DISSENT] | ||
Neither option on its own is desirable; together, they are unbearable. Life shouldn’t be reduced to a balance between waged work and housework, a balance between work and work. Instead, if we are concerned about fixing the “time bind,” we should do the unimaginable: ask for more time. | Neither option on its own is desirable; together, they are unbearable. Life shouldn’t be reduced to a balance between waged work and housework, a balance between work and work. Instead, if we are concerned about fixing the “time bind,” we should do the unimaginable: ask for more time. | ||
=====Juneteenth and the Need for a Reimagined, More Progressive Tax Code===== | |||
[https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/juneteenth-economic-inequality by Brakeyshia Samms 18/6/24 Common Dreams] | |||
Though Black Americans are no longer taxed as property, their relationship with the property tax system remains challenging. Today, for instance, Black families pay more property taxes than white Americans who own comparable properties. Black people went from being literally taxed as property to being slighted by the property tax system – perpetuating deep economic inequality for a group of people who have always suffered on the soil of this land. | |||
