Soaking States' Rich, Covid Clemency, and 'Red for Ed' Three Years Later
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Hi everyone, Wanted to share some new reporting before you all head off for your MDWs. 1. The first story, published today in The Intercept, looks at a new effort in Connecticut to raise taxes on the state’s wealthiest residents. (Connecticut is also the nation’s wealthiest state.) It comes on the heels of similar successful campaigns over the last year in New Jersey and New York, and I looked at the way advocates and some lawmakers are approaching revenue campaigns with new courage, emboldened to fight back on long powerful arguments that the wealthy will just pick up and leave. That certainly
Soaking States' Rich, Covid Clemency, and 'Red for Ed' Three Years Later
Soaking States' Rich, Covid Clemency, and…
Soaking States' Rich, Covid Clemency, and 'Red for Ed' Three Years Later
Hi everyone, Wanted to share some new reporting before you all head off for your MDWs. 1. The first story, published today in The Intercept, looks at a new effort in Connecticut to raise taxes on the state’s wealthiest residents. (Connecticut is also the nation’s wealthiest state.) It comes on the heels of similar successful campaigns over the last year in New Jersey and New York, and I looked at the way advocates and some lawmakers are approaching revenue campaigns with new courage, emboldened to fight back on long powerful arguments that the wealthy will just pick up and leave. That certainly