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Bernie’s Math Problem
Forbes | Wayne Winegarden
February 24, 2020
How Senator Sanders plans on paying for all of this new spending is also well known – he will ensure that the “billionaires pay their fair share of taxes”. For example, he has proposed a wealth tax on the super-rich that begins with a 1% tax on wealth above $32 million. The tax would progressively increase capping out at an 8% tax on wealth over $10 billion.
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Listen to PRI's "Next Round" Podcast
PRI 2nd Annual Policy Conference: The Homeless Crisis
February 24, 2020
In Governor Newsom’s recent State of the State address, he reportedly spent 35 of his 42 minute speech on the homeless crisis. On the same day, PRI held an A-list panel of policy experts to discuss the homeless. Chris Rufo is a PRI adjunct fellow and director of the Discovery Institute’s Wealth and Poverty Center, Joseph Tartakovky, also a PRI adjunct fellow, practices appellate and constitutional law at Gibson Dunn. PRI California Fellow Kerry Jackson served as moderator.
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Doctors Who Support Medicare for All Should Be Careful What They Wish For
Newsweek | Sally C. Pipes
February 25, 2020
Doctors should be careful what they wish for. Medicare for All would exacerbate the epidemic of burnout that’s plaguing physicians by forcing them to work longer hours for less pay. Many of those currently practicing would retire or leave the profession. Promising young people, meanwhile, would likely shun careers in medicine.
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