{"id":35264,"date":"2019-01-06T13:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T21:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35264"},"modified":"2019-01-06T13:07:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T21:07:51","slug":"open-thread-1-6-2018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/06\/open-thread-1-6-2018-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/6\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox.&#160; WWW id due in 20 minutes and we have a big load of chores to do.&#160; This is my only article today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:41 (average 5:35).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-01-06-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ntLsElbW9Xo&amp;t=0s&amp;list=PLB4ZwZjaUJxZ8CHexhf-TN_t3LTDlRVfd&amp;index=22\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Barry McGuire &#8211; Eve of Destruction<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ntLsElbW9Xo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Though released in 1965, this song is still appropriate today. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/pelosi-says-she-will-skip-trump-and-negotiate-directly-with-putin-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a bold gambit to end the government shutdown, the House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said on Saturday that she would bypass Donald J. Trump and negotiate directly with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI owe it to the American people to bring this shutdown to the swiftest possible conclusion, and so I\u2019m avoiding the middleman,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! I had no idea that Nancy was so smart! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/01\/05\/ocasio-cortezs-not-all-outlandish-proposal-70-tax-rate-uber-wealthy-could-raise-720\\s\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>As many historians, economists, and informed citizens were forced to point out in the wake of the freak-out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/01\/04\/call-me-radical-ocasio-cortez-suggests-70-tax-rate-ultra-rich-help-pay-green-new\" target=\"_blank\">over a proposal by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to raise the current tax rate on the very wealthiest Americans to 70 percent<\/a>, such a rate is not at all unprecedented and higher rates were the norm for a large portion of last century.<\/p>\n<p>And one of the reasons that much higher rates were once very popular was because they were able to generate lots of revenue that was then put to good use. And, since most people are not extremely rich, there was popular support for such progressive taxation.<\/p>\n<p>What Ocasio-Cortez is actually suggesting, said economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, is &quot;what top public finance economists have been saying for some time&quot; and &quot;not at all outlandish.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I love the idea, but 70%? Why so low? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0106Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thank God we beat them!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox.&#160; WWW id due in 20 minutes and we have a big load of chores to do.&#160; This is my only article today. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:41 (average 5:35).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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