[X.com] by @EricLevitz
It is not true that Americans have experienced "continual cuts" to public benefits since Reagan, as the lede of this piece suggests. Rather, wage subsidies, food assistance, and public health insurance were all expanded between 1980 and 2020. Tho tide obviously just reversed https://t.co/bTn4MfK0YU
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Sandeep Vaheesan
@sandeepvaheesan
"The story of recent decades isn’t just one of increasing hardship for those who depend on wages and public services, but of state-sponsored extravagance for those who own assets." If you don't grasp the second part, Abundance may look like something new, i.e., not neoliberalism https://t.co/a7Clr3aQDa
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Fri Jul 04 22:25:22 +0000 2025