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Tax cuts that hurt the poor

jeudi 11 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Syriza is telling Greeks it will cut taxes to stimulate economic growth. Syriza was started as a "leftist" party, but this sounds awfully right-wing to me.

With the euro rules forbidding deficit spending, tax cuts will force cuts in spending, and that will hit the poor hardest.

To rebuild Greece "from the beginning", as Tsipras said, could be possible only with debt relief.

Corbyn

jeudi 11 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Corbyn rejected the goal of "social mobility" as a substitute for giving everyone a decent life.

It is important to give everyone a chance to put per talents to good use, but the people who are not especially talented deserve a good life too.

400 Poles trafficked to UK

jeudi 11 juillet 2019 à 02:00

A Polish gang trafficked 400 Poles to the UK to enslave them.

The victims were forced to do work — but not, it appears, sex work.

Lying thug charged for framing people

jeudi 11 juillet 2019 à 02:00

A lying thug in Florida has been charged for framing many people.

A hundred criminal cases were dropped because he was involved in them. Eight convictions have been overturned, but I think it is unlikely that he succeeded in framing people only eight times.

Right-wing extremism in Italy

jeudi 11 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Salvini's right-wing extremist party is being investigated, accused of making a deal to get Russian fund.

I have a sad hunch he won't lose any support for this.

Communism was once an international movement. Then, Communists professed good, idealistic goals, while some carried out repression that they hid from the rest. Communists considered it entirely proper for the Soviet Union to aid Communist parties all around the world.

Now fascists have made an international movement, with repression as the overt goal. I have a hunch Salvini's followers will say, "It's great that you got funds from Putin so we subject Italy to repression."