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Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling

The features of the bill that are likely to help ordinary people were catchy and easy to understand—reduced taxes on tips and overtime pay and a higher standard deduction for the elderly on income taxes. Yet these projected revenue losses are tiny compared to those incurred by the super rich.

Nancy Folbre

Issue 296


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    • two cents Health vs. Health Care | Banks’ “Middleman” Function
    • active culture Revolting Against Christie | “Hactivists” for the Homeless
    • comment Wal-Mart and Affirmative Action
    • making sense Twitter Blackmails San Francisco
    • up against the wall st. journal Manipulation of “Missing Girls”
    • in review Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics
    • ask dr. dollar Is the concept of monopoly capitalism relevant today?

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