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AM Reyes's avatar

Purpose of Economy is more than the word to define. Ask yourself, what is the purpose to live a better life for all, we the people? We are one on this planet. Until we accept, we are one, we will never have peace and better life for all.

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Charlie in VA's avatar

Every day with Trump is like 911. a disaster!

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Ballard Graham's avatar

Trump will not suspend the Tariffs if he can’t find away to claim victory!

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Joseph McPhillips's avatar

Happy Tax Evasion Day! DOGE is stealing your tax revenue and giving it to rich cheaters.

The “tax gap” is likely to surge due to reduced IRS resources, making tax evasion more likely. This is attributed to DOGE-directed layoffs, which have crippled the agency’s ability to conduct audits and discover fraud. The result is a stealth giveaway to the wealthy, rewarding bad behavior and undermining federal revenue. https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/happy-tax-evasion-day?r=aexlz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

On another happy MAGA note...Trump: "Home-growns are next". Foreign gulags for US citizens while Trump's lackeys JD Rubio etc laugh at Trump telling Bukele that Trump wants to send American citizens to Bukele's gulag. BTW Rubio's DOS has revoked the visas of Nobel Peace Prize winner & former President of Costa Rica Oscar Arias as well as Costa Rican parliamentarians for daring to establish trade relations with China.

[Timothy Snyder Substack 4/15/25] If citizens endorse the idea that people named by authorities as "criminals" or "terrorists" have no right to due process, then they are accepting that they themselves have no right to due process. It is due process, and due process alone, that allows you to demonstrate that you are a citizen. Without it, the masked men in the black vans can simply claim that you are a foreign terrorist and disappear you. https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/state-terror?r=aexlz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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Lucy Sage's avatar

Yikes!

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Lucy Sage's avatar

Extremely substantial and beneficial talk. I'll be tuning in next week!

I always appreciated Heather's columns in the Harrisburg Patriot-News!

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Diane Choquette's avatar

I wanted to watch this live and ask a question, but I missed it live. I thought these talks were going to be at noon EDT, which is 9:00 my time, so I got on at that time, but there was no notice about any upcoming talk, so I worked in my garden. The email announcing the talk came in to me at 9:46 am PDT. Could we please have more advanced notice of these talks? Thanks!

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Linda Donahue's avatar

My sister in law did her Taxes and then passed away. It took the IRS 4 years to correct her mistake. With the reduction in staff will they bother with corrections. We got her refund of almost $2000.00.

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Carole Langston's avatar

The undocumented who pay taxes are being ripped off pur streets. Nazi style.

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Elizabeth Horton's avatar

Thanks for making this so understandable, if not exactly optimistic.

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Carol A's avatar

Heather talked about 3 buckets but then only referenced the 1 bucket Trump is using to enrich himself. What are the other 2 buckets?

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Pat Jones Garcia's avatar

Good speakers and explanations. Thank you for this talk.

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Marie's avatar

One cannot even recommend to these MAGA idiots (my elderly parents and my siblings and the generation beyond us) to save themselves like freezing credit bureau accounts. Has their IQ been leaking out of them? And if I have any money left, I will be feeding them all even if it is out of my garbage can. This scares me to death.

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Carole Langston's avatar

Thank you for all the brilliant litigators to continue this long fight. The stupidity of tearing undocumented, hard working, family orientated, TAX PAYING immigrate off the street like feral dogs is shameful. Targeted because of brown skin, Spanish as their 1st language, and tattoos. SHAME! The hard chore tRumpladites are disgusting, ie Jan6ers.

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Peter Van Kampen's avatar

Trump has lost the Tariff war but does not know how to retreat and none of his Bozo's are capable of helping.

China could not have written a better plan to take our world leadership from us.

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Lark Leonard's avatar

Thank you, Jared & Heather! You had me laughing so hard at your walk-about on the "crypto reserves" - that was very funny and politely said. And I enjoyed the entire discussion - thank you!

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