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The article is from November 2023. www.expressnews.com/news/article...
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👍🏽 make it retroactive
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makes sense
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Thanks for voting to protect the Buffalo River!
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Sen. Bryan King, R-Green Forrest, voices his concerns over the governor's $750 million, 3,000 bed state prison planned for Franklin County. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YOv...
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arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Detail...
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#arkleg #arkansas @gregleding.bsky.social
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11/ The tariffs aren’t economic policy. They are political weapons.
But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs.
The people still have the power.
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9/ The tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry.
As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.
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7/ But the private sector also plays a rule to protect democracy. Independent industry has power.
The tariffs are Trump’s tool to erode that independence. Now, one by one, every industry or company will need to pledge loyalty to Trump in order to get sanctions relief.
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5/ Trump knows that he can weaken (and maybe destroy) democracy by using spending and taxation in the same way.
He is using access to government funds to bully universities, law firms and state and local governments into loyalty pledges.
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2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense.
That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
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And it misrepresents the UK study result as risk "going down". What decreased was the additional per-infection risk. This is a silver lining, sure, but only after a person has already hazarded the larger risks of the first infection or two.
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the main point: people discovered blocking contagion is feasible via N95 etc. Myriad good reasons for doing so are self-evident. Research continues to reveal further reasons. →