Read My Lips: More Billionaire Taxes
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🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The coronavirus relief bill moves to the Senate this week. A group of progressive House Democrats are continuing to push for a minimum wage increase in the bill. Meanwhile, Senator Warren and other Democrats introduced a wealth tax proposal aimed at addressing economic inequality. We talk to Representative Pramila Jayapal about why she's pushing for it now.
Protests in Myanmar are ongoing following the coup last month and the response from the police and military has grown increasingly violent. We review the recent history of the country, and recommend some good resources for digging in deeper.
And in headlines: President Biden meets virtually with Mexican President Lopez-Obrador, why pharma companies won’t share vaccine blueprints, and former French leader Nicolas Sarkozy is convicted of corruption.
Show Links:
"Is Democracy in Myanmar Dead?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/opinion/myanmar-protests.html
Follow journalist Aye Min Thant's on the ground reporting
https://twitter.com/the_ayeminthant
"How a Deadly Power Game Undid Myanmar’s Democratic Hopes"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/world/asia/myanmar-coup-aung-san-suu-kyi.html
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, March 2nd. I'm Hila Hughes. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Gideon Ressick and this is what the day we were calling our mom's twice as much now in celebration of women's history month. |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah, and she's calling me twice as much in celebration of women's history month. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm getting the same amount of calls. |
| 0:21.0 | And now... |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, an update on the situation in Myanmar one month after the coup, then some headlines. |
| 0:36.0 | But first, the latest. |
| 0:38.0 | Last week, the legislation passed in the House of Representatives. |
| 0:42.0 | This week, the Senate will take up the measure. |
| 0:45.0 | Let me say that again. The Senate will take up the American Rescue Plan this week. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, thank you, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for doing my job there and just say in the news. |
| 0:55.0 | So, like he said, the COVID relief plan that passed recently in the House with no Republican votes is set to move forward in the Senate this week. |
| 1:02.0 | Which means it's time for another segment we're calling stimulus countdown, or as someone wonderful on Twitter suggested, stimulus waiting. |
| 1:09.0 | So tired, tired of waiting, tired of waiting for you. |
| 1:18.0 | It'd be so tight if they would just give us that money. |
| 1:24.0 | So, the last time we talked about this, there was a decision from the Senate parliamentarian to mix the $15 minimum wage hike, saying it can't be done via reconciliation. |
| 1:33.0 | A few days have passed since and lawmakers are trying to figure out the way forward. So, Gideon, where do things stand now? |
| 1:39.0 | The question of the day. Well, first things first, when this decision actually came down, we mentioned there was a backup plan from Senator Sanders. |
| 1:46.0 | He and Senator Ron Wyden, they're the finance and budget chairs, so that if they couldn't just increase the wage, then they wanted to add tax penalties for companies that weren't paying workers $15 an hour. |
| 1:57.0 | But as of late Sunday night, that backup plan was scuttled for now at least. |
| 2:01.0 | The Washington Post broke the news that they were stepping away from that idea, seemingly because of a desire to get the larger bill passed by mid March when those unemployment benefits expire. |
| 2:10.0 | The thought, according to this report, was that it was going to be challenging to get everyone on board with this new idea in such little time. |
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