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Oct 26, 2025, 12:30:44 PM (9 days ago) Oct 26
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The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen
 producers: Dave Scott and Stephanie Collins
Chloé LaCasse (the best of the attitude)
streaming live at wnhnfm.org noon&7pm EST on the dial-94.7FM Concord NH
opening thoughts:
If Dems Won’t Tax Billionaires After This, What Are They Even Doing?
The sequence of events over the past few months reads like a case study in how oligarchy actually works in America. First, billionaires passed legislation to enrich themselves. Then they shut down the government to avoid helping working Americans afford health care—a system those same billionaires profit from. And now, they’re trying to leverage the shutdown to fire thousands of workers who protect vulnerable Americans while gutting programs millions of families depend on. This is a moment that demands a response. If Democrats can’t run on a unified platform that centralizes and prioritizes taxing the ultrawealthy in order to dismantle their stranglehold on our government, then they need to get out of the way for people who will.Let’s start with the “One Big Beautiful Bill”—a piece of legislation that delivers more than 70 percent of its benefits to the richest fifth of Americans in 2026. The richest 1 percent will receive an average net tax cut of $66,000—at a cost of $1 trillion. Meanwhile, the bill would result in 14 million more Americans becoming uninsured by 2034, with more than $1 trillion in cuts coming from Medicaid alone—the largest cuts in the program’s history, and a stunning transfer of wealth, almost dollar for dollar, from the poorest Americans to the richest. Republicans’ refusal to fund health care for working Americans caused the shutdown of our government, and the administration is now joyfully inflicting suffering on vulnerable Americans—schoolchildren, low-income families, unhoused people, and senior citizens.
The American people have had enough. Recent polling from battleground congressional districts shows that 73 percent of likely voters support raising taxes on billionaires, with 53 percent supporting it strongly. Support is even higher among independents, and higher still among Democratic primary voters, the base that Democrats desperately need to reinvigorate if they want to remain politically relevant. The public gets it—and they want their elected officials to do something about it.
at a time when Americans are living through the painful consequences of a government bought and paid for by the ultrawealthy, the Democratic Party and its leaders need to offer voters a unified, forward-looking agenda that actually fights back against this entrenched power.Granted, the Democrats are out of power, so right now, they can’t do much. But as they make their case heading into 2026 and 2028, asking the voters to return them to power, they need to be talking about a wealth tax like the 5 percent annual tax on people with $50 million or more in wealth and a 10 percent annual tax on people with $250 million or more. Independent scorekeepers have found that such an approach would raise $6.8 trillion in the first 10 years, slow the emergence of new billionaires, and reduce the total share of wealth controlled by billionaires.This isn’t just about raising revenue to invest in our families and communities. It’s also about breaking the cycle we are currently living through: billionaires using their wealth to buy political power, then using that political power to enrich themselves further while dismantling public programs that help everyone else, thus making them more dependent on billionaire-run services.Democrats have a choice. They can continue playing defense while billionaires systematically dismantle our economy and democracy to enrich themselves or go on offense with a message the country is ready to hear: If you elect us, we’re going to tax extreme wealth to return power to the people.
rethink the week
talkers:
Stephen Pimpare is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Master in Public Policy program at Vermont Law and Graduate School. He is the author of four books, numerous articles, and the Host of the New Books Network's public policy channel. 

Felipe De La Hoz is a contributing editor for The New Republic. Along with co-writer Gaby Del Valle, he runs BORDER/LINES, a weekly newsletter breaking down the rapid pace of change in federal immigration policy.

Lincoln Mitchell teaches political science and public policy at Columbia University. He is the author of nine books and his writings have appeared at CNN, Reuters, the New York Times, NBC, the San Francisco Examiner and numerous other media platforms. For more of Lincoln’s work you can subscribe to his Substack “Kibitzing with Lincoln” at /lincolnmitchell.substack.com/.”

Egberto Willies is a political activist, author, political blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer in Kingwood, TX. He is an ardent Progressive that believes tolerance is essential. His favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship”. Egberto is Host/Producer of Politics Done Right aired on Pacifica Network's KPFT 90.1 FM and other networks. Read his articles at his "Egberto Off The Record" Substack newsletter at politicsdoneright.com/newsletter.
topics:


ICE’s “Sh*t Show” Recruitment Push Leaves Stephen Miller Fuming Donald Trump’s push to beef up ICE is a total disaster. https://newrepublic.com/post/202199/donald-trump-ice-recruitment-disaster-stephen-miller
This Is Not “Cancel Culture.” This Is Organized State Repression.The Trump administration’s onslaught against MAGA critics doesn’t belong in the same conversation as the liberal online mobs of yesteryear. https://newrepublic.com/article/202205/trump-cancel-culture-state-repression
Karoline Leavitt Says Trump Can Destroy Entire White House if He Wants Leavitt dodged a key question on the limits to Donald Trump’s abilities to renovate. https://newrepublic.com/post/202194/karoline-leavitt-donald-trump-destroy-entire-white-house

5 takeaways from the demolition of the White House’s East Wing https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5570860-trump-white-house-ballroom-east-wing-takeaways/

GOP senators disconcerted by possible $230M Justice Department payout to Trump

Unveiled Today: The First Politically Viable Wealth Tax Today on TAP: A proposed 2026 California ballot measure would tax billionaires’ fortunes to fund imperiled health access for 15 million state Medicaid recipients.  https://prospect.org/2025/10/23/unveiled-today-first-politically-viable-wealth-tax/
‘It’s only gotten worse’: As ACA premiums are set to climb, some Americans opt to go uninsured NBC News
UnitedHealth and AARP Shake Hands on $9 Billion Deal
Behind the Capitol Hill photo ops and consumer-friendly slogans, AARP, America’s most trusted seniors’ group, has close financial ties with America’s largest health care conglomerate. https://healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/unitedhealth-and-aarp-shake-hands


A New Car vs. Health Insurance? Average Family Job-Based Coverage Hits $27K https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/workplace-health-insurance-premiums-family-plans-kff-survey/

What does Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon & others have in common? They are paying for the destruction of the WH and now they have to cough up $50 million more...imagine how much it is going to cost by the end of the weekend (Donald's tacky taste doesn't come cheap).

Mosquitoes Have Been Found in Iceland for the First Time Ever Now, Antarctica is the only place left on Earth untouched by these pests.

Trump’s Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even WorseIt’s bad enough that Trump wants—and DOJ will likely fork over—this tribute payment. Now, get this: It can probably be done at first without even being revealed publicly.


Hegseth says 3 ‘narco-terrorists’ killed in boat strike in Pacific https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5568860-us-military-strikes-alleged-drug-boat/

5 takeaways from the final New York City mayor’s debate

The Myth That Mamdani Will Cause New York City’s Richest to Leave. https://prospect.org/2025/10/23/myth-that-mamdani-will-cause-new-york-citys-richest-to-leave/

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