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.
There are other ways to organize U.S. international trade. The neoliberal free trade of recent decades and the trade restrictions of Trumpian tariffs are not the only options.
Steve Early speaks about "Capital's War on Labor, Labor's Civil Wars"
Tuesday, March 1, 7 to 8:30 PM @ Porter Square Books
25 White St. * Cambridge, Mass. 02140 * (Located in mall across from Porter Square Stop on the Red Line). Come to the after-party for special guest Sal Rosselli, president of the new National Union of Healthcare Workers in California, from 8:30 to 11 p.m. at Christopher's Bar, 1920 Massachusetts Ave.
Steve Early, longtime Boston-area union organizer and activist, discusses The Civil Wars in US Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old? This new book takes a critical look at the costly fights within progressive unions that erupted between 2008 and 2010 and the external threats facing labor today. For more information on the book, see www.civilwarsinlabor.org or call 617-930-7327.