The show notes for Episode 53 are at http://www.eclectablog.com/2017/10/episode-53-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-trump-tax-scam.html
Eric Levitz at New York Magazine: Democrats Should Tell Voters What Else They Could Get for $1.5 Trillion
Chad Bold on Twitter: @Chadderr
The Indivisible Guide: Indivisible.org
Ezra Klein at Vox: This is not how the Senate is supposed to work
Lily Batchelder on Twitter: @LilyBatch
Catherine Rampell at The New York Times: The report Trump officials don’t want you to see
Millionaires are 0.5% of the total US population, get 58.6% of the benefit of the Trump/Ryan tax plan.https://t.co/DDYHDjk2Vu pic.twitter.com/NvEGGI9OGM
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 4, 2017
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy: Benefits of GOP-Trump Framework Tilted Toward the Richest Taxpayers in Each State
Dan Mangan at CNBC: Congress moves toward funding lapsed federal children’s health insurance program, House eyes Medicare hike for higher earners
Robert Pear at The New York Times: Bill to Rescue Children’s Health Program Hits Snag in House
Hahrie Han at The New York Times: Want Gun Control? Learn From the N.R.A.
Joseph Bernstein at Buzzfeed: Here’s How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Robin
Chris Savage at Eclectablog: Michigan Republican senator wants to have private, for-profit police forces – What could possibly go wrong?
FLINT UPDATE
Michael Gerstein at The Detroit News: Lawyers consolidate Flint water class-action suit
Ron Fonger at the Flint Journal: Gov. Snyder won’t say if he wanted to avoid declaring Flint water emergency
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Music clips
Intro and Outro music: Zoolookologie by Jean-Michel Jarre
Money by The Flying Lizards
Money by Pink Floyd
I’d Love to Change the World by Ten Years After
Taxman by The Beatles
Unclaimed by Mike Wagner/Total Strangers