One idea Harris should consider embracing, both to impress working-class voters on the campaign trail this year and to help navigate the legislative thicket next year: is to raise the corporate tax rate only on corporations that pay their chief executives absurdly more than they pay their workers.
In 2021, writing for the Washington Monthly, Carter Dougherty urged Biden to adopt a version of a policy that originated in Portland, Oregon: Companies that pay CEOs 100 times more than their median worker must cough up a 10 percent tax surcharge. If the ratio is 250-to-1, then the surcharge is 25 percent. In 2023, also in the Monthly, Jessica Church argued such a law could have rendered the protracted United Auto Workers strike unnecessary.
The appeal of the approach is clear. CEO compensation has skyrocketed in the last few decades, fueled by financial instruments like stock options, while worker compensation has lagged. This is a way to help increase the pay packages of average Americans without complex government bureaucracy or contentious labor strikes. As a Portland City Council member told Dougherty, “The goal was not to make money. The goal is to get employers to raise median wages.”
so instead of committing to fight with the workers to gain better rights and raising the minimum wage we are just going to try force the situation with horseshit regulations?
the fire she started with is already going out not to mention her right wing immigration stance
here we go again
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He didn’t stall - he just had a senior moment. It’s completely fucking obvious he was intimidated by the journalists and just decided not to answer… actual stalling is slickly redirecting the conversation, he utterly failed to do that.
No. He didn’t even win by any sort of thin margin.
The closest anyone even got to him was Dean Phillips got 19% in New Hampshire. I guess he spent his entire time campaigning there. Even state with the highest ‘uncommitted’ protest votes only got those up to 29.1%.
Some people here really don’t like it, but Biden was going to be the nominee. So I’m glad he ended up dropping out and it’s going to be Harris instead because it sure as hell wasn’t going to be Dean Phillips.
(I will say that if you include American Samoa in this, Jason Palmer got 56% of the vote.)
I have to give Dean Phillips some credit, he probably saw that Biden was starting to show his age and at least tried to get some attention on it. The debate was the tipping point for many (I know it was for me). If we had a debate earlier in the process then maybe we all could have come to this conclusion sooner.
Honestly, dropping out this late was kind of a genius move, even if it was unintentional. The Trump campaign is twisting in the wind. They were all in to fight Biden. Now it’s an old man against a woman who isn’t young, but also doesn’t look 59, and is clearly just far more intelligent and far more just cognitively able than Trump.
And the best attack Trump has been able to come up with is “she turned black all of a sudden.” Which he said to a bunch of black people.
There may not be many holdouts, since it is virtual they are doing it all in a strict order and giving delegations more time than they usually do at the convention. It could be that they just got to the point in the roll call where they have enough votes for Harris to get the majority.
I read somewhere that since no other candidate met the requirements to be considered, no other candidate is involved. People who don’t vote for Harris will have to vote “Present”.
For now, the left union holds strong, as the warning from organised civil society is intense: those who betray the citizens for a handful of ministerial portfolios should beware. But the longer Macron stalls for time, the more this disastrous scenario gains credibility.
this entire time i was wondering what macron’s goal was with ignoring the left and now it makes sense
Nothing sarcastic about it. She is both. She is black and Indian. Her father was from Jamaica, her mother was from India. I’m sure she is proud of being multiracial.
But more importantly, she’s American. And her opponents will question that. Don’t let them get away with it.
Edit: That said, is she also the first presidential candidate with two foreign-born parents? Does anyone know?
I’m sure he was but I I’m willing to explore the possibility that he knew he was going to step down but held back until the RNC. I’d be shocked if that was accidentally strategic
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