Episode 69: Things We’re Thankful for, Like Successful Family Vacations, but We also Talk about Tax Reform

In this episode, We talk about our family vacation to the Great Wolf Lodge, vacations for depressed parents, Magda’s holiday sanity project called Coffee & Eggnog, the Holiday Survival Plan, and some other random things that are making life easier or bringing us joy.

In this episode, We talk about our family vacation to the Great Wolf Lodge, vacations for depressed parents, Magda’s holiday sanity project called Coffee & Eggnog, the Holiday Survival Plan, and some other random things that are making life easier or bringing us joy.

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The House Republican tax bill, explained - Vox — In an influential 2006 paper analyzing data in 72 countries across 22 years, he and his American Enterprise Institute colleague Aparna Mathur estimated that a "1 percent increase in corporate tax rates is associated with nearly a 1 percent drop in wage rates.” A second paper in 2010 found a slightly smaller effect (a 0.5 to 0.6 percent decrease in wage rates per 1 percent increase in corporate tax rates) but still concluded that labor was ultimately paying the tax. More than paying it, in fact — they estimate that labor pays 2,200 percent of the tax’s burden, a really extraordinary estimate.How tax breaks help the rich - Vox — But how, exactly, do these tax breaks work? Before we decide whether to keep them or get rid of them, we need to understand whom they benefit.Happy anniversary, Americans of Conscience! - Jennifer Hofmann — With this in mind, here are the three issues the Americans of Conscience checklist will focus on this December and through 2018:

Equal rights for all Americans
Full voting access for all Americans
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