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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Enriching Trump

We've seen in the news that Mitch McConnell and the Republican Senate has been trying to pass a further financial stimulus bill but that Democrats have been against that. What hasn't been clear to me until now is why Democrats were against it, but Dana Milbank explains in The Washington Post ...

Trump and Kushner could reap a pandemic windfall

[...] As the dust settles on the $2.2 trillion legislation, it has become clear that one of its largest provisions, a $170 billion tax giveaway, appears to be tailor-made for the benefit of wealthy real estate investors such as President Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who is running one of Trump’s coronavirus task forces.

The giveaway, primarily to real estate investors and hedge funds, is larger than the total amount in the legislation for hospitals ($100 billion) and for relief for all state and local governments ($150 billion). Worse, the bonanza for these millionaires and billionaires has little to do with the coronavirus: It lets them offset losses not just from 2020 but from 2018 and 2019, before the pandemic ...


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