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Someone I know online posted a meme: "Congratulations to everyone who managed to avoid having student debt. Now you do." This pissed me off, and I've been trying to hunt down a decent argument to refute the idea. Folks, please correct my numbers so I...
by Larry Lagarto
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 01:33 PM PDT
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The 2024 ACA Open Enrollment Period (OEP) has its first enrollment deadline TONIGHT in most states +DC. This is the best OEP ever for the ACA for several reasons: The expanded/enhanced premium subsidies first introduced in 2021 via the American Rescue...
by Brainwrap
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on Fri Dec 15, 2023 at 10:15 AM PST
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The 2024 ACA Open Enrollment Period (OEP) has its first enrollment deadline TOMORROW (Friday, 12/15) in most states +DC. This is the best OEP ever for the ACA for several reasons: The expanded/enhanced premium subsidies first introduced in 2021 via the...
by Brainwrap
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on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 11:52 AM PST
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The 2024 ACA Open Enrollment Period (OEP) launched today in 49 states +DC (it actually already started on Oct. 15th in Idaho). This is the best OEP ever for the ACA for several reasons: The expanded/enhanced premium subsidies first introduced in 2021...
by Brainwrap
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on Wed Nov 01, 2023 at 06:50 AM PDT
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The idea of a carbon tax comes from economist Arthur Pigou, who created the theory of externalities. It works. Therefore the industry is screaming about it. Therefore we must do more of it. And dump ...
by Mokurai
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on Tue Sep 12, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
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Two new studies about the fossil fuel industry were published this past week. The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) found that the G20 nations pumped $1.4 trillion into explicit subsidies for the industry in 2022. In its study...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Aug 27, 2023 at 11:00 AM PDT
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It’s time for the Ultra Rick to pay their fair share of taxes. Elon Musk just spent billions of dollars to buy Twitter, while his companies have received billions of Tax Payers' money in the from of subsidies.
by The Boss Gomez
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on Wed Apr 27, 2022 at 04:41 AM PDT
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Twelve years of data scrutinized in a study conducted by researchers at Kyoto University and Tohoku University have shown a “mismatch” between what four major oil companies say about their climate-related promises and their actions. The researchers...
by Meteor Blades
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on Thu Feb 17, 2022 at 11:27 AM PST
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On Tuesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a virtual appearance at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Summit where he called for the government to end subsidies�for something that might seem�surprising—...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Dec 08, 2021 at 09:00 AM PST
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Progressives started with a $6 Trillion bill over ten years against an economy that Paul Krugman estimates will produce a gdp of $300 Trillion over the coming decade. That would mean that the bill would only take two percent of the estimated gross...
by Dem
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on Sat Oct 23, 2021 at 04:14 PM PDT
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From the commie pinko World Bank .
Air pollution is the leading environmental risk to health, costing the globe an estimated $8.1 trillion in 2019, equivalent to 6.1 percent of global GDP. 95 ...
by LaFeminista
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on Sun Oct 17, 2021 at 03:56 AM PDT
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The IMF estimate of how much the fossil fuel industry benefits from global subsidies .
From the Guardian
The IMF found the production and burning of coal, oil and gas was subsidised by $5.9tn in ...
by LaFeminista
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on Wed Oct 06, 2021 at 04:29 AM PDT
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Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of Aotearoa/New Zealand, is urging that other countries follow the NZ example and end government subsidies of fossil fuels. Ardern said New Zealand had been leading the charge on "climate finance" such as ending fossil...
by senorjoel
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on Thu Apr 22, 2021 at 10:07 PM PDT
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NOTE: I’ll be reposting this diary every week or so throughout the 2021 Special Enrollment Period to make sure this information gets to as many people as possible. All 50 states + DC have re-opened enrollment on their respective ACA exchanges in...
by Brainwrap
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on Sun Apr 18, 2021 at 12:39 PM PDT
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A few weeks ago, I noted that one of the numerous ACA-related provisions of the American Rescue Plan was this one: Put simply, subsidized enrollees last year received around $6.3 billion in "excess subsidies"...they underestimated their income for the...
by Brainwrap
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on Wed Apr 14, 2021 at 12:27 PM PDT
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In the United States, major medical insurance policies for those who don't have healthcare coverage through their employer, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, the Veteran's Administration or some other source are available via the ACA's individual market...
by Brainwrap
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on Tue Mar 30, 2021 at 09:51 AM PDT
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The House Ways and Means Committee is moving to dramatically increase access to Affordable Care Act (ACA) policies for those who lost insurance during the pandemic. According to one survey, that's nearly 3 in 10 Americans. That same survey found that...
by Joan McCarter
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on Wed Feb 10, 2021 at 01:15 PM PST
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31% of US farm income from direct government payments and subsidies socialism www.agriculture.com/... Paycheck Protection Program provides loan forgiveness to large business socialism www.washingtonpost.com/… Shielding businesses from...
by Dont Know Nothing
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on Sat Dec 05, 2020 at 09:49 AM PST
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VoxMedia’s The Verge published a lengthy article today giving an updated analysis of the status of what former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (remember him?) had pitched to the media, the public, and the State government as THE showcase...
by Jay C
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on Mon Oct 19, 2020 at 10:09 AM PDT
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INTRODUCTION Farmers continue to get bashed over the farm subsidies question. Even more so under Trump, and with the release of updated data on farm income and wealth, (USDA: Economic Research Service (ERS,) 9/2/20, "Data Files: U.S. and State-Level...
by Iowa Farm Activist
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on Sun Oct 11, 2020 at 05:41 PM PDT
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