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What Happens When Inequality Meets Hate (w/ Greg Palast)
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Greg Palast examines what the shooters have in common and whether white supremacy is the main cause. He asks if it is the economy and lack of jobs in Dayton that is partly to blame.
Greg Palast suggests there are other causes and discusses his views with Thom.
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Is Trump’s History Contributing To The Destruction Of America? (w/ Dr Justin A. Frank
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The pattern of Trump in the past is a useful study to understand where he is today.
Dr Justin A. Franks, M.D. examines Trump’s history and previous destructive streak and how it affects Americans today.
The moral tone he sets today says that being aggressive, hurting others and his race views are fine with him, so why not with you? His lack of responsibility running the country is going to damage America, not improve it. Trump doesn’t care about the rules and this destructiveness rubs off on many people.
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We Need To Defeat Trump's White Supremacy Virus
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What happened in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio isn't new.
The economic and political undercurrent of American culture and politics has always been one of white supremacy.
Until this poisonous thought virus is defeated, it will continue to function like a cancer in our society. We need to make it as much a criminal act to advocate white supremacy as it is to advocate for Al Qaeda or Daesh.
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Why Puerto Rico Is America's Fantasy Island
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A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US.
Two years after Hurricane María, Puerto Rico is still reeling from the storm's physical destruction and the ensuing infrastructure collapse. The devastation compounded the harmful effects of over a century of exploitative US economic, political, and social policies, including the trauma inflicted by its $72 billion debt crisis.
In Fantasy Island, Ed Morales traces how, over the years, Puerto Rico has served as a colonial satellite, a Cold War Caribbean showcase, a dumping ground for US manufactured goods, and a corporate tax shelter. He also shows how it has become a blank canvas for mercenary experiments in disaster capitalism on the front lines of climate change, hamstrung by internal political corruption and the US federal government's prioritization of outside financial interests.
Taking readers from San Juan to New York City and back to his family's home in the Luquillo Mountains, Morales shows us the machinations of financial and political interests in both the US and Puerto Rico, and the resistance efforts of Puerto Rican artists and activists. Through it all, he emphasizes that the only way to stop Puerto Rico from being bled dry is to let Puerto Ricans take control of their own destiny, going beyond the statehood-commonwealth-independence debate to complete decolonization.
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US newspaper mergers threaten democracy and journalism.
Local newspapers in the US are being taken over by huge corporations who can now control national newspapers, radio and TV stations.
These mega media corporations control what you read and what you see and hear.
Journalists are being laid off, along with print workers and others in the sector following consolidation and cost cutting.
Have these businesses grown so large that they should be broke up?
Yosef Geachew from Common Cause Media joined Thom to discuss the newspaper crisis.
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How Do We Criminalize Domestic Terrorists Without Creating A Police State?
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How can we fight domestic terrorists without creating a police state where Black Lives Matter activists and Antifascists would be at the mercy of domestic terrorism laws?
Could domestic terrorism laws end up cracking down on progressives, legitimize protest movements like Antifa and Black Lives Matter?
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In 33 Years The Rich Will Own All The Wealth In America!
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According to new data from the federal reserve, if current trends of the rich getting richer and the middle class getting poorer continues at their current rate, in 33 years the top 10% of Americans will own one hundred percent of all American wealth. Everyone else will be in poverty and in debt. Right wing billionaires like Donald Trump are cheering this on, calling for more tax cuts on rich people and less power for working people through the continuing destruction of unions and fighting the minimum wage.
They tell us that the problem is not [a combination of] corporate monopoly and rich people taking everything for themselves....
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We Do Have A Mental Illness Problem & It's In The White House
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Trump, the NRA, and the Republican Party keep talking about mental illness as the core of our problem right now in America. And, indeed, we have a major mental illness problem in our country right now. It’s in the White House.
Our president is mentally ill, and until we recognize that, acknowledge that, and begin a national conversation about it there can be no solution.
Donald Trump lies, he continuously contradicts himself, and his erratic behavior are all symptoms of his severe mental illness.
Many of America‘s mental health professionals have recognized this, but a serious discussion of the president’s mental illness has not yet moved out of the realm of mental health professionals and into our mainstream discussions.
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Debate: Will The Minimum Wage Raise Inflation?
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One caller thinks it will and that no party works for the interest of the people, Thom Hartmann takes us through history of the minimum wage to prove that raising it won't cause inflation.
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Mental Health Or Video Games: What's Causing America's Gun Violence Problem?
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Former Congressman Bob Barr [[GA 7th District) is on the board of the NRA.
He joined Thom to discuss the recent shootings, where Thom challenged the NRA to come up with a public policy to stop the mass shooting we have seen recently. Watch what Barr had to say.
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How Cowboys & Capitalism Are Ruining The American West
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Thom Hartmann reads a section from This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West by Christopher Ketcham.
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"Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse--and investigates the destructive behavior of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations. "
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Did Impeaching Andrew Johnson Lay The Foundation For Impeaching Trump?
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Could impeaching Trump have the backing of United States history?
Back in February of 1868, Congress impeached Andrew Johnson, formerly Abraham Lincoln's Vice President who took office after Lincoln passed. What's interesting is that the articles of impeachment for Andrew Johnson could easily be applied to Donald Trump today.
Could progressives work to impeach Trump just like Congress impeached Andrew Johnson so many years ago?
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The Impact Of Growing Up In A Domination Culture
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Can the domination culture that produced Donald Trump be stopped?
Riane Eisler joins the Thom Hartmann program, warning that we are in a regression [yet that we can still make progress. But we must handle human rights regressions such as] the election of Donald Trump.
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Former White Nationalist Reveals Surprising Way To End Extremism
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Former white nationalist, Christian Picciolini reveals surprising way to to put an end to the movement of extremism and how Donald Trump fits right into white nationalists' goals.
Being brought into a white nationalist skinhead organization in his early teens, Christian fought his way out of the movement and now spends time trying to [rescue] others like him.
Could he have a way to put an end to white nationalist organizations once and for all?
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In Hitler's Bunker: A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account Of The Fuhrer's Last Days
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Why Stock Buyback Slowdown Could Halt Economy
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After buying over a trillion dollars of their own stocks thanks to Donald Trump, public companies are slowing down with their share repurchases and all that means that the economy could come to a halt because these companies.
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Why Are Republicans Blaming The Mentally Ill And Arming Them?
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Republicans are blaming everything and everyone from videogames to the mentally ill for the wave of gun violence. At the same time they are also changing laws to let mentally ill people gain access to firearms?!
So which is it?
Are mentally ill people to blame for America's gun violence problem or are the Republicans trying to blame anyone but their NRA donors?
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Will Medicare For All Win 2020
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Medicare for all is growing in popularity among voters and could be the real winner of 2020.
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What Happens When The President Acts Like A Cult Leader?
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Friend of the show, Deb calls in with a chilling comparison between Donald Trump and Charles Manson.
Is the caller right in comparing Donald Trump to notorious serial killer Charles Manson? What happens when the president acts like a cult leader?
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Nixon Southern Strategy Rises Again
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Are we seeing the return of Nixon's Southern Strategy with Donald Trump?
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It Is Happening Here, But How Do We Stop It?
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The Trump administration has come after people from all walks of life, particularly minorities, but one caller, whose father died in the Katyn Massacre, reminds us that what the Trump administration is doing to the immigrants and refugees can happen to anyone.
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Exposing the Flaw in Trickle Down Economics
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Republicans have been shoving trickle down theory down American's throats forever but there are fatal flaws in the Trickle Down Theory and one caller exposes them.
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Trump's Profits Will Tear The Web Of Life Apart
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Donald Trump and his billionaire, oil drilling buddies are trying to get rid of the Endangered Species Act.
Biodiversity is the foundation on which all life depends, including human life.
Biodiversity provides for our water, food, shelters, and health. It's the air we breathe, the nutrients we take in and the soil that our food is grown on.
Now, with Trump’s attack on the Endangered Species Act, the web of life is more at risk than ever before.
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Don Siegelman Reveals The Dangers Of Bill Barr
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Don Siegelman joins the Thom Hartmann program to talk about the dangers of Bill Barr, revealing what we all feared about Trump's attorney general.
Former Governor Don Siegelman [[D-AL) and former Secretary of State joined Thom.
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Is Your Body More Than A Just Machine?
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What is ‘Heart Based’ medicine?
The medical system in the US is in crisis, based on fraud, waste and greed. Depression is at an all-time high.
Heart Based medicine brings more compassion, deep listening and bringing simpler ways into healthcare. Love, care and compassion isn’t part of medical training – but it should be.
Andrea Gardner & Dr. Jan Bonhoeffer joined Thom to discuss alternative medicines.
The Heart Based Medicine conference is being held 12-14 September in San Francisco.
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Jeffery Epstein's Mysterious Suicide Raises More Questions
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Jeffrey Epstein's suicide in custody is leading to many speculating that something strange happened.
Don Siegelman says that there would be nothing in the cell of Jeffrey Epstein that he could use to commit suicide. He questions why he was taken off suicide watch.
He believes that if Epstein committed suicide, it was with the complicity of ‘someone’ and that it couldn’t have happened by ‘accident’.
He also talks about Bill Barr and his opinion.
Former Governor Don Siegelman [[D-AL) and former Secretary of State joined Thom.
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Exposing How The Financial Sector Robs The American Public
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Are we all being robbed by people in the finance sector?
New rules are being proposed [that] are designed to weaken the rights of a debtor, meaning debt collectors can legally harass people for money – up to seven calls a week, every week – and for every debt. Seven debts – that’s seven calls a day – 49 calls a week.
Lisa Stiffler from the Center for Responsible Lending joined Thom to explain the debt proposals.
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To Save Social Security You Have To Vote For Democrats
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Republicans are again trying to take down social security and you could be at risk of losing your social security right now.
Alex Lawson of Social Security works reveals that the only way to stop Republicans from taking down social security is to vote in as many Democrats as possible.
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What's Killing Rural America?
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Rural America is in trouble. Food deserts, no hospitals, limited internet options, which leads to less access to the fewer jobs that exist and the corporations behind it are making billions.
Is there anything we could do to stop this?
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Did Iraq Prove Libertarians Wrong?
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Libertarians believe that without government the free market would make the world a paradise, but when they get to test out their hypothesis, they fail at every turn.
A caller asks Thom about the finer details of libertarian economic beliefs.
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The Koch Brothers Exposed!
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The story of the Koch Brothers and why they refused to lose control of a company and Charles Koch with his political attitude.
The Koch’s want to own capitalism and control it entirely their own way. How has that affected the affluence of Americans for good or bad?
Christopher Leonard joined Thom to discuss the Koch Brothers.
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Will Banning Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib Backfire On Israel?
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Ilhan Omar and Rhashida Tlaib have been banned from Israel following a Donald Trump tweet against them!
Does the President have the right to ban members of Congress he disagrees with from visiting other countries?
And will the ban ultimately backfire on Donald Trump ... and Israel?
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The Rich Profit As Economy Falls
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How do the rich profit as you face worse economic conditions?
Thom reveals one of the many methods the billionaire class uses to break the middle class down and profit while doing it.
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Bernie Sanders Wants Americans To Fight Climate Change Not Each Other
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Senator Bernie Sanders wants Americans to come together to fight climate change instead of spending our time and money elsewhere as the world burns.
Trump and Netanyahu between them banned Democratic members of Congress from visiting Israel. Senator Bernie Sanders dropped by with his views.
Medicare For All is resonating strongly across the US. We are spending twice the amount of money on healthcare than any other country to the extent of $11,000 per person, per year. Why? The insurance business and their profiteering.
Bernie Sanders proposed the Medicare for All Bill, to bring our heath care under control. MCA will cap the amount of money spent on prescription drugs. The Republicans won’t support that as they continue to push for profits over people.
Climate change and Congress: if we don’t get those together in the next eleven years, the damage to the planet could be irreversible. Trump denies climate change, preferring to spend billions on military projects, where it should be spent reducing the use of fossil fuels.
Senator Bernie Sanders joined Thom for a mini ‘Brunch with Bernie’.
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Why Evangelicals Should Care About Climate Change
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Thom Hartmann caller points out a very compelling argument on why the religious right and evangelicals should care about climate change!
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Kashmir In Crisis w/Ro Khanna
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Ro Khanna talks with a caller and Thom Hartmann about the ongoing crisis in Kashmir.
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The Tribalization Of Politics Ian Reifowitz
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Thom hartmann reads from Ian Reifowitz's The Tribalization of Politics, as part of the Thom Hartmann Book Club!
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Talk Radios America Book Report
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Was Universal Healthcare Stopped By Racism?
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Did Universal Healthcare end because of racism?
Thom Hartmann exposes how Universal Healthcare was stopped at every corner by racist policies that didn't want to see healthcare and other benefits applied to African Americans.
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How Rush Limbaugh Paved The Way For Trump!
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During the Obama presidency, Rush Limbaugh spend eight years claiming the administration was anti-white and Obama as a secret Muslim.
Trump listened to Limbaugh on talk radio while looking at running for president. Trump to this day takes Limbaugh opinions and spouts them as absolute truth.
Ian Reifowitz joined Thom to discuss Limbaugh.
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Why An Extinction Event Could SAVE The Human Race?
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An extinction event could SAVE the human race.
The human race is on a path to self-extinction. Our growth of GDP has been aimed at growing the bank accounts of billionaires and not focusing on long term survival on the planet.
Do some young people actually know where food comes from – other than the supermarket? Or, are youth waking up to the reality that our time left on the planet is being taken away by our own actions?
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Equality Or Extinction?
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Global climate change could spell out extinction for the human race, unless we learn to create a real and lasting equality.
Dr. David Korten joins the program today to discuss how we can build up an egalitarian society and respect nature.
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Are The New Fascists Environmentally Friendly?
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Fascism is using environmentalism as a new tactic to get young people to join what's being called Eco fascism.
Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali joins the Thom Hartmann program to explain the nearly contradictory politics of eco-fascism.
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Is Mike Pence Trying To Put Women Who Get Abortions In Prison?
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Thirty eight states now have laws that treat miscarriages as potential crime scenes because of “fetal homicide“ laws that have led to the imprisonment of American women who had miscarriages as the result of accidents or suicide attempts.
The Republican war on women is picking up steam…
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How A New Cold War With Russia Could Spiral Into Nuclear Catastrophe!
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Thom reads from the Russia Trap: How a New Cold War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe!
“A must read for anyone who cares about our nation's security in these cyber-serious, hair-trigger times.” – Susan Eisenhower
Every American president since the end of the Cold War has called for better relations with Russia. But each has seen relations get worse by the time he left office. Now the two countries are facing off in a virtual war being fought without clear goals or boundaries.
Why? Many say it is because Washington has been slow to wake up to Russian efforts to destroy democracy in America and the world.
But a former head of Russia analysis at the CIA says that this misunderstands the problem. George Beebe argues that new game-changing technologies, disappearing rules of the game, and distorted perceptions on both sides are combining to lock Washington and Moscow into an escalatory spiral that they do not recognize. All the pieces are in place for a World War I-type tragedy that could be triggered by a small, unpredictable event. The Russia Trap shows that anticipating this danger is the most important step in preventing it.
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Steve King's Gross Argument To Deny Rape Exception To Abortion Law
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Many states across the U.S. relax strict abortion law in the case of rape or incest but Iowa's Steve King wants to do away with such laws.
Thom Hartmann reveals the frightening and gross argument Republican Steve King is using to keep the strictest abortion laws in place even in the case of rape and incest.
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Just How Dangerous Is Fracking?
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Is there any way fracking can be done safely, for both humans and the environment?
Newly published reports show that not even the strongest regulations can ... make fracking any safer for the environment or for wildlife or people.
Fracking can be used for both oil and gas and is an industrialized process. Fracking blasts a lot of water and chemicals underground, with hundreds of trucks bring in materials. Fracking is very expensive, and the industry is barely covering its costs. It isn’t always economic to transport the gas produced by fracking and it is burned off, making the whole process pointless while destroying the surface of the ground and deep down.
What are the risks of fracking to people who live close-by?
There are concerns with water and the water table becoming contaminated with chemicals. Wastewater can sometimes be dumped into streams, which could impact drinking water and wildlife.
Environmental journalist, Tara Lohan joined Thom Hartmann.
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Recession Guaranteed Says Economists. Only Question Is When!
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Is there a new recession coming? We are already overdue for one of these downturns, according to Dr. Richard Wolff.
Trump has launched a trade war, which is bad for both economies with everyone losing thousands of dollars a year due to that.
The upswing has been going on too long, so how deep will the next recession be?
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The Misogyny Behind The "Pro-life" Movement Exposed
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A new survey reveals what the so called pro-life movement thinks of women and they can’t had their misogyny. Thom Hartmann looks at the report and links.
So now that we know the pro-life movement believes women are inferior to men what will they do now?
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Why Did Trump EPA Approve Brain Damage Causing Pesticide?
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The Trump EPA just approved a pesticide that is linked to brain damage. Tiffany Finck-Haynes joins the program to discuss just how dangerous these chemicals are to you and to the environment.
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Medicare DISadvantage: The Private Company Taking Your Medicare Dollars
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A private, for profit company is taking your medicare money and making you think you are getting medicare coverage the whole time they take your money.
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Exposing How Capitalism Pits Working People Against Each Other!
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Why are working people fighting each other instead of working together against the billionaire class ruling the country?
Professor Richard Wolff joins Thom Hartmann to expose how racism is intrinsic to capitalism and the goal of the capitalist: dividing the working class and putting them against each other.
How can we stop the rich from dividing the working class?
"I can hire half the working class to kill the other half"
— Jay Gould
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Mike Pence Could Be Planning A Coup In The White House
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Could Mike Pence be planning a coup in the White House?
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Would You Sign Away Your Constitutional Rights?
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Forced arbitration clauses are making working people sign away their constitutional rights... but how legal is that?
Counsel for civil justice and consumer rights at Public Citizen Remington A. Greg joins the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss the [issue.]
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How Beef Burned Down The Amazon
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The amazon rainforest is on fire and beef is to blame.
The corporations that produce beef are starting fires along the amazon to clear way for grassing fields for cattle and they are doing this at the expense of the entire world.
Why are these corporations allowed to destroy the rainforest?
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Tom Steyer 2020 Presidential Run Inspired By Climate Catastrophe
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2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Tom Steyer reveals that the urgent need to solve the climate crisis, corporate greed and other problems facing the world inspired the billionaire philanthropist to run for President.
Presidential candidate Tom Steyer joined Thom live on the program to explain why he decided to run for the presidency.
Can any important work be carried out by the present administration and what needs to be done about it?
Steyer calls for someone outside the Washington bubble to be president.
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Do You Need To Move To China To Find The American Dream?
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The American dream has a new address, China!
Thom Hartmann talks to one listener who left the United States for the greener shores of China.
Regular caller Curt Kelley moved to China to live the ‘American Dream’.
Curt Kelley found that the Chinese work harder for business than many in America and are more forward looking.
Is the American Dream now the Chinese Dream? How does the middle class in China compare to modern day America? Listen to the story about the lady who owns her apartment in Beijing outright, pays for her daughter to learn English . . . and flips burgers at McDonalds.
Curt joined Thom to explain why he made the move to China.
Why is the American dream in China and how can we bring it back here?
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Anatomy Of America's Next Disaster Exposed!
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How do disasters like what happened in Europe in the early half of the last century, actually take place?
Dr. Omer Bartov joined Thom to talk about his book and why he looked at what happened in a town now in the Ukraine and how it could happen here.
Why do people turn on their close neighbors they have known for decades? What flips the switch?
The book talks about a town now in Ukraine, having moved between several countries.
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Breaking The Myth That Progressives Can't Win The White House
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Pundits and the media have repeated the myth that progressive candidates cannot get elected.
One Thom Hartmann listener even started worrying that democratic socialist Bernie Sanders and progressive Elizabeth Warren would have a hard time not only getting elected but also getting any of their "radical" proposals passed.
Thom Hartmann breaks down this myth and proves that not only can progressives win the 2020 election but that they can get their most radical policies passed.
What progressive policy do you want to see passed?
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The Preexisting Hypocrisy Of Republicans On "Socialized" Medicare
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A Republican who voted against Obamacare covering preexisting conditions is celebrating being able to pay for open heart surgery for the newest addition to his family.
What would the average American be doing in his situation because of his votes?
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Is The Media Trying To Make Bernie Sanders Look Crazy?
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Why is the media trying to make Bernie Sanders look crazy?
Thom reveals the history of the media taking down political candidates with manufactured scandals. It happened in 2004 with Howard Dean and it could be happening now with Bernie Sanders.
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The Hidden History Of The Supreme Court & The Betrayal Of America!
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Thom Hartmann reads from his new book, the Hidden History of the Supreme Court & the Betrayal of America, explaining how the Supreme Court has spilled beyond its Constitutional powers and how we the people should take that power back.
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The Shocking Reason Monopoly Capitalism Hurts Democracy
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Why are there so few companies competing with each other? One word, monopolies.
This isn't the capitalism that Adam Smith envisioned. Now giant corporations own whole industries and if you want a phone service, internet or groceries, you have to go through them.
And they can treat you, the customer, however they want.
So why isn't anyone breaking up these corporations?
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Did Donald Trump Blackmail Justice Kennedy?
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New evidence suggests that Donald Trump could have blackmailed Justice Anthony Kennedy into leaving the Supreme Court?
Thom Hartmann reveals what could finally get Donald Trump impeached!
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Are The Slave Patrols Still Here? Meet Hannity's New Brown Shirts!
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Sean Hannity wants to make America "safe again" by putting armed guards on every corner and at every school.
But safe for whom?
Sean Hannity's call for Brown Shirts, makes Thom Hartmann wonder if America's slave patrols ever really went away?
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Can The GOP Be Forgiven For Trump?
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If the GOP turns against Trump and the oligarchs and works to undo the damage they caused to America and Democracy, can they be forgiven?
Are there any Republicans against Trump left?
What would a left Republican Party look like?
Can the GOP save their soul?
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How Climate Change Inspired Mark Gamba To Get Politically Active!
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Mayor of Milwaukee, OR, [[D-OR) joined Thom to share his vision of being a Congressman, as he is standing in the next election.
Topics included the co-operate sell-out, climate change, the red/blue divide and healthcare.
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Trump Guts National Forest Protections!
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Donald Trump is trying to gut national forest protections, clearing the way for logging, mining and other environmentally destructive acts in our national forests.
[We're discussing] fighting the Trump administration on the destruction of our forests for profit and to remove protections for our wild areas.
The U.S. Forest Service is under threat from the administration.
Susan Jane Brown joined Thom to discuss the need to shift environmental decision making back into public view.
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Trump Comparison to OBL and Impeachment
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The Killer Inspiration Behind Ayn Rand's Libertarian Hero
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Ayn Rand is a popular hero among the far right and is required reading through many American high schools. But why is someone who loved serial killers inspiring the far right?
Thom Hartmann exposes the sinister inspiration behind Ayn Rand's libertarian hero.
To answer the question of who is John Galt, we have to learn who....
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If It Happens Here...Can We Stop It?
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A caller asks Thom Hartmann if the safeguards against fascism in the United States are actually effective.
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The Dangerous Case Of Donald Trump's Mental Health
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Is Donald Trump's mental health a national security concern? Should it be a concern for voters, for the president's supporters?
Bandy X Lee, the Assistant Clinical Professor-Yale School of Medicine joins the Thom Hartmann program to discuss the dangerous case of Donald Trump running the country.
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How The Governor Of Texas Empowered Mass Shooters
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Should we name the mass shootings after people who created the environment where would-be mass shooters had easy access to weapons, bullets and political hatred?
Thom Hartmann proposes that we name Saturday's massacre after Greg Abbott, governor or Texas
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Will Trump's Attack On Unions Inspire A Political Revolution?
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Donald Trump's effective attack on unions and worker organizing, has got progressives furious and it could lead to a political revolution!
Larry Cohen joins to talk about the state of union organizing.
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Are Donald Trump's Appointed Judges Protecting Him?
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A federal Judge has hidden Trump's taxes from the one person who has the right to view them and release them.
Donald Trump appointed this Judge to the Federal Court.
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Is Trump Caught In The Russia Trap?
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What if the escalating tension between Russia and the United States gets worse? Could Donald Trump lead us to conflict with Russia?
Is Russia cornered and lashing out at the US and the world? Russia wants to be a great world power, but can it remain as a single country and achieve that?
What should US policy be towards Russia? Is what we are saying making Russia more aggressive than it needs to be? There is an argument that the US isn’t standing up to Russia enough.
Author George Beebe joined Thom to ask whether Trump is caught in a Russian trap.
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Exposing Why The News Won't Talk About Climate Change
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Hurricanes are in the news a lot right now, but the media won't talk about the cause of these hurricane's power: global climate change!
So how do we get the media to report on climate change?
Our very way of existence could depend on a media willing to report on things the fossil fuel industry doesn't want them to.
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Surprise Billing Is Bankrupting Americans!
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The hospital, the doctor and the insurance companies are making money off surprise billing a practice where patients can be charged for out of network machines and personel they may have never been aware of at all.
The only cure, Medicare for all!
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Caller Debates Religious Right
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Exposing The Secret Christian Group Seeking Political Power
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‘The Family’ is the oldest Christian Conservative Organisations in Washington D.C. and very secretive. Their goal is not to use Christian feelings to help the poor and the needy, but to concentrate on the ‘key’ people such as politicians and businesspeople.
Jeff Sharlet was part of the organisation and has published books on his findings. Jeff joined Thom to reveal all and [discuss] whether this is a cult.
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What's Just Happened In The UK?
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The United Kingdom Parliament is tearing itself apart in full public view in the run up to Brexit.
21 Members of Parliament were thrown out of the Conservative party for voting against a motion in the House. Those losing government support include Sir Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Winston Churchill, and two former Chancellors of the Exchequer. This took away the majority in the House from one, into negative territory, currently minus 43.
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn might want a new general election, although both say they don’t.
How is this all going to work out? Can it work out?
Victoria Jones joined Thom to discuss the latest news from London.
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DEBATE: The Green New Deal Vs. Neoliberalism!
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act means we have more people than even in full-time employment and the labor market is threatened by the far-left, according to Elaine Parker. More jobs than people to fill them.
Is this all being done on borrowed money? Is it all a Trump con?
Elaine Parker, President of the Job Creators Network Foundation joined Thom.
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Trump Promised To Save Jobs But Workers Are Being Laid Off
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Trump promised to save American jobs but workers across the country are being laid off.
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Why Big Agriculture Is The Biggest Obstacle To Solving Climate Change
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Is big agriculture the biggest obstacle to solving climate change? Chemical intensive agriculture is kicking our planet and actually contributing to world hunger.
The deforestation in Brazil is contributing to CO2.
Why is the US federal government promoting the industrializing of land and pushing the same in other countries. Small scale farmers around the world are being pushed to increase in size and use chemicals produced in the US. Seed companies want farmers to not save seeds for the next year but buy fresh seed every year. There is nothing climate smart or sustainable about that.
Timothy A. Wise joined Thom to explain the policies and what is going wrong.
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Why Did Ohio Stop Anti-Pollution Bill Of Rights?
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Ohio's Chamber of Commerce shut down an anti-pollution Bill of Rights, after having obtained the help of a key Republican official.
Organizer for Toledoans for Safe Water Markie Miller joins the program to discuss whether Lake Erie has rights and what organizers on the ground are doing to help Lake Erie out!
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Could Trump Be Crueler Than We Thought?
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Donald Trump may be crueler than we had all thought but the people around the world are better than we ever believed.
Thom breaks down two stories that showcase both the greatest extremes of human cruelty as brought to us by Donald Trump and the best of us, as seen in every day people.
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What Would Progressive Tariffs Look Like?
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Donald Trump's tariffs are not doing anything to help the country. Historically tariffs were the domain of progressives but now that Donald Trump is starting a trade war, many are wondering what would a progressive tariff plan look like and would it create the same problems?
Thom Hartmann breaks down how a progressive would implement trade policies and tariffs.
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The Biggest Danger Of The Trump Administration Revealed
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What is the worse thing Donald Trump and his administration have left us?
Thom Hartmann reveals the most damaging thing Donald Trump has done, one that could turn our democracy into a banana republic!
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How Trump's Strongman Tactics Led To American Casualties
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Donald Trump is running the country like a strongman and in doing so putting Americans and world peace in danger at every turn.
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Is Trump Admin Turning Up Heat On Voting Rights?
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Are Republicans increasing their attacks on voting rights?
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SHOCKING & Wasteful Price Of Nuclear Power Revealed!
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A whopping $49 billion has recently been spent in the US on propping up 15 aging reactors through subsidies and building two new -- and still incomplete -- ones. How did $49 billion get spent?
-- Can nuclear power be a cost-saver in any climate plan?
-- In California, the impending closure of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in 2025 will finally render the state nuclear-free.
-- Is nuclear power zero-carbon?
-- Do any of the candidates have a good nuclear plan?
Kevin Kamps joined Thom to discuss current dangers.
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What Becomes Of America If Donald Trump Is Reelected?
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Can America survive if Donald Trump is elected for a second time?
What would we see happen to our nation, to our democracy if president Trump is reelected.
Thom Hartmann reveals the too awful to think about possibility of four more years for Donald Trump.
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What Happens When Americans Go On A Fake News Diet?
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What's the outcome when half of America doesn't get real news?
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How Ro Khanna Would Fix Nuclear Treaties
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Do we still need nuclear treaties?
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Valerie Plame: The Secret Agent Running For Congress
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Valarie Plame-Wilson is stepping up to run for Congress in New Mexico.
Valarie is a former CIA covert ops officer and has shared her experience in her book ‘Fair Game: My Life as a Spy’.
Valarie Plame-Wilson joined Thom Hartmann to discuss her book and why she feels it is important to run for Congress.
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What Americans Must Never Forget
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Thom Hartmann reveals that 'never forget' needs to be about not letting our leaders exploit our national tragedies.
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Are Homeless People The Next Victims Of Trump?
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How Universal Healthcare Frees Unions To Fight For Workers
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The right wing is making a big deal about how universal healthcare would take a victory away from unionized workers who fought hard for their health insurance.
But Thom Hartmann and Mark Pocan reveal how universal healthcare could free unions to fight for even more rights for their workers and raise every boat.
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Why Warren’s Plan To Lift Millions From Poverty Scares The Rich
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Elizabeth Warren has a plan to lift millions of seniors out of poverty, and so far the plan has been met with fear from the media and the rich!
For decades, progressives have been talking about eliminating the cap on the Social Security tax and raising Social Security benefits enough that retired and disabled people can actually survive. It makes no sense that working-class people have to pay Social Security tax on 100% of their income and a billionaire might pay the Social Security tax on less than 1% of his income, At the same time, seniors are rationing medicine and literally eating dog food.
Warren wants to use the money from removing the cap to give everybody on Social Security a $200 a month raise, which will lift 5 million seniors out of poverty, cut the senior poverty rate by 68%, and provide a strong stimulus to the economy because virtually every penny of that money will rapidly be spent.
It’s time that wealthy people pay their fair share of Social Security taxes, and disabled and retired Americans who are struggling to get by in this Reaganomics economy don’t have to make decisions like, “Do I buy food or do I buy my prescriptions?”
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Republican Strategy To Win: Lie & Cheat!
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The mantra of the Republican party seems to be "if I can't win - lie and cheat."
The Grand Old Party is planning to get elected through voter disenfranchisement, lying to their supporters and lying about the Democratic Party.
Are we going to let them get away with this?