Tax Billionaires, Save Lives: California’s Proposition 40 Is Met With a Heap of Meritless Objections
A one-time tax on the super wealthy is an important step toward greater equality.
The federal government pays sheriffs $90 a day to hold immigrants awaiting deportation. Some sheriffs are aggressively lobbying to have immigrants put in their jails. Local jailers receive $1.7 billion a year from taxpayers to keep people charged with overstaying their visas instead of releasing them pending trials.
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