“that excitement to ask a question differently or to see something anew is what keeps the field growing in the midst of a fed gov that is trying to erode these fields

They will not disappear bc they exist within the curiosities & the minds of people who are doing the work

We're not going anywhere”

"And momentarily, they were making these challenges all together. Ah, but when you separate them, you retreat into the bourgeois order of things.

All such humanly emancipatory struggles, all then so fiercely fought for! You bring them together, and the world system had begun to question itself!"

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Different tax systems for working Americans & wealthy:

Working Americans cant use charitable giving (often to nonprofits) to offset income taxes

Wealthy can use philanthropy (often to their own private charities which can hoard $) + tax benefits to eliminate wealth taxes

Public loses this revenue

Pre-1982 investors would get returns in highly taxed dividends

1982 FCC allowed companies to buy back stock (increases company value & skyrocketed stock market growth). Returns transformed from taxable dividends to non-taxable growth in company value

Mainly benefits owners, gov loses those taxes

"Income earners (working Americans, not the wealthy) are the ones that are really carrying the expenses of government

Income taxes: 50% of total federal revenue
Payroll taxes: ~35%, pays for social security & medicare
Corporate taxes: %11
Estate taxes: <.05%

“It is the continued existence of the estate tax that is serving to benefit the richest Americans, what it does is provide a cover that makes people think the wealthy are subject to taxes, when they are not/ it is riddled with loopholes”

“we have named the vice in which we are held captive. The question is whether others are willing to know what we know, whether formations of knowledge & power that enabled this capture can be expected to produce something else – or whether we must rethink existence, world & Earth from the ground up”

“Liberal pundits treat the present as exception/ embrace an enchanted view of the foundations of the American Project, ignoring racial slavery & settler colonialism, and try to counter Trumpism with a delusion of their own. The comfortable don’t grasp the constitutive exclusions of liberalism”

“American advertising industry’s practices of producing and circulating racial theories of populations and personhood, particularly through the role of advertising strategy and other modes of knowledge production, which are designed to help advertisers predict and persuade people for profit”