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The Hartmann Report

MLK'S FIGHT FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Climate Change, Congress, News, The Hartmann Report, Democracy, Debate, Economics, America, Thom Hartmann

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

For some people in our society the economic crisis never ends. What solutions did MLK promote in his activism, and where do we stand today? Thom is joined by Algernon Austin- Director for Race and Economic Justice at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

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0:42.6

This is the Tom Harbin program.

0:48.1

My rant today, my daily take over at harmondreport.com, is titled House Republicans are

0:52.6

playing with fire with our economy.

0:55.0

It's not just that they're playing with fire.

0:57.0

It's that the fire that they're playing with could be World War III.

1:01.8

And, you know, there's a couple of important points that I, or what I think are important points

1:07.1

that I'm making in this op-ed today.

1:09.9

The first is that we're about to hit our debt ceiling, right?

1:12.9

This is, it's going to happen on Thursday of this week.

1:16.7

Now, Janet Yellen, our Treasury Secretary, is going to be able to move money around and

1:21.2

pause things and change things so that maybe we can get through June without going into default.

1:31.2

But she's warning the House Republicans that they are playing with fire.

1:36.4

And, you know, they're perfectly willing to do it and there's a couple of reasons.

1:41.7

The first reason that House Republicans are willing to do this is because the billionaires

1:46.3

who finance them hate paying income taxes and even though they only pay two or three percent

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