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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Oct 2019

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Lawrence H. Summers

    It's a mistake to just focus on this as bad history (although it is bad history). It's also a veiled threat: if you tax my rich friends, they are more than ready to unleash all the demons in Hell.https://twitter.com/LHSummers/status/1188079883664154625 …

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    Forcing the wealthy to spend could boomerang. If the wealth tax had been in place a century ago, we would have had more anti-semitism from Henry Ford and a smaller Ford Foundation today.
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      1. Tom Cairney‏ @TomCairney 26 Oct 2019
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        Bring itpic.twitter.com/xSRc3x2apa

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      1. Sarah Grynpas‏ @SarahGrynpas 26 Oct 2019
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        Also, that whole thread reads like the Duke brothers explaining bacon to Eddie Murphy. I know that's not the point, but wow.

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      1. John Robb‏ @RealStirfryguy 26 Oct 2019
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        Weren't there massive income taxes in the 20's? Didn't they tax the top bracket 70%?

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      1. Part Time Omnivore‏ @PTOmnivore 26 Oct 2019
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        Looking forward to a few years from now when a bunch of rich dudes are pointing at this Summers tweet and yelling at each other, "This is how we got Warren!"

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      1. Marc Jacobs‏ @trollball 26 Oct 2019
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        Summers is not one of the good guys.

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      1. David Emmett‏ @motomatters 26 Oct 2019
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        How would we tell the difference?

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      1. Josh‏ @sinboy 26 Oct 2019
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        I don't think he even realizes that, if you look at what he's saying, it's a great argument for full on communism.

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      2. Virginia S. O'Possum, MS, MA  💉 💉 💉‏ @VirginiaOPossum 26 Oct 2019
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        Wow. Summers' take is so bad that I feel compelled to say this obvious thing: Taxing the rich to support social programs is Sutton's Law. Social programs provide more security and incentive to participate in political life. Taxing *corporations* will dent the power of PACs.

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      3. Virginia S. O'Possum, MS, MA  💉 💉 💉‏ @VirginiaOPossum 26 Oct 2019
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        I mean he can't even have been arguing in good faith, his logic is so bad.

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      1. Angus Rockford‏ @AngusRockford 26 Oct 2019
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        They’ve already unleashed hell on us because we’ve shown too much willingness to just take it. The only way to beat bullies is to stand up to them and smash their faces in. I would trade every accommodationist Democrat for just one Walter Reuther.

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