NoneOfUrBusiness

You're getting downvoted but I agree. Neoliberals will do nothing but say slightly meaner words to Trump as he kidnaps their constituents.

Wrong method, right answer kind of thing. NATO is far too much of a US sock puppet.

Waste it doing random shit. If I was in your position I'd start getting through my watch and read list. Oh and learn a new language, that never hurts.

That's a surprise given that Ukraine was still ruled by its pro-Russian regime at that point. I guess I have a few more people to wish a slow and painful death now.

What? You're not making any sense.

there's simply 0% chance that any family anywhere in this country is living in poverty with that kind of income.

The original Substack addresses this point, but the short of it is: Most income gains from 35k to 100k are cancelled out by a loss of government benefits, so there's a lot less difference between these than you'd expect. You only start making real gains starting from 100k. Now a family making 100k will have expendable income that's true, but the vast majority of its income will still go towards essentials so it's still one emergency away from insolvency.

Edit: This means that a family with two incomes and two young children making 50k is getting a market price equivalent of 50k in government benefits, so we can crudely approximate families straddling the poverty line as making 100k net. In that case the difference between the effective official poverty line and the proposed poverty line is a large but realistic 40%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#Poverty_income_thresholds

TL;DR: "The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation."

Uh... right where they are? The American welfare state is insufficient across the board, so it needs to be strengthened across the board, and employers across the board should be forced to pay living wages.

I mean those are technicians, not factory workers. For those see: https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes519199.htm

Protest doesn't, direct action does.

I wasn't expecting much from a literal banker, but what the heck Carney? Just... what?

he also might not be bothering with the billionaire tax because the billionaires would all just fly off Hawaii or Nevada or Jackson Hole or wherever to avoid paying it anyway.

That basically never actually happens. See: New York.