You always want to stick around for the Maggedon show here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
As we always have packed shows for you today, no exception going to be joined by Emily's
list of senior VP of communications and content, Christina Reynolds at the bottom of the hour,
talking about Trump's weird, creepy, ill-inducing women's town hall conversation that broadcasts
today on Fox.
We had Jeff Clemens coming up on Maggie in the millionaires top of the hour today.
He's the CEO of American Promise, a cross-partisan organization working to pass a constitutional
amendment to get big money out of politics.
Cannot wait for all that.
But this segment, I'm talking to you about the fact that Donald Trump and Republicans
will always tell you because they have no candidate can win if they say, well, I really don't
care about the middle class.
And my entire purpose here is to effectively help my billionaire and hundred millionaire
friends hoard wealth and extract labor from the middle class.
Like no one's, let's just start there.
No candidate is ever going to say that, okay?
It's like no candidate ever runs, well, I'm soft on crime.
No one says that because if you set it that way, you don't get elected.
So if we understand that whatever the economic policy plans or the tax proposals are, the
candidate always has to sell it as better for the middle class.
And if that's true, you know, the differences between, say, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris's
tax proposals, let's just take those, for example, could not be any more different.
Kamala Harris proposes raising income taxes on households with incomes of $400,000 or more.
She proposes raising taxes even more for the wealthiest 1% of Americans.
Donald Trump wants to cut taxes for those people.
Now he throws in what he calls a tax cut for the middle class, but which functionally isn't
when you take all of his economic proposals together as a whole, just go look up the institute
for tax and economic, I tap the institute for tax and economic policy, which is a nonpartisan
organization, I tap dot org, go check out their analysis.
So they both can't be true, right?
You can't have these totally different policy proposals and everybody says, yes, it's good
for the middle class.
The one has to be true and one has to be less true or arguably a big fat lie.
So we talk about nearly every day on Maggie and the millionaires talking money at 3 p.m.
But you can look at the performance of red versus blue states and the data and I don't
care which data point you pick.
People, the middle class and working people and in states, historically dominated by Republicans
and Republican, Republican, economic and tax policy do much, much worse on both a wellness
income and wealth basis.
They have lower literacy rates, they have higher homicide rates, they have higher infant
and maternal mortality rates, they have higher rates of sexually transmitted diseases, whatever
it is, like they had more people die of COVID.
But the question is, okay, so empirically we can look at this and blue states do better
than red states and nearly every metric.
What's going on here?
Why would that be the case?
If the policies that Republicans put in place in their states and that Republican national
candidates run are so good for the middle class, what's really going on?
Fundamentally, when you look at Republican economic plans, they are always focused around
ensuring that labor is cheap and what does that mean?
It means that wages are comparatively controlled and lower relative to what wages would be
under democratic governors and legislatures and presidents.
Because when you artificially suppress wages, your profit margin gets larger, especially
if you're running monopolies or near monopolies and price fixing and price scouging and pandemic
profiteering, but the whole core of this is the idea that I should pay someone the absolute
minimum, the lowest dollar that I can possibly pay that.
And I should prevent them from organizing so that I can keep their wages low.
That is the core of Republican economic policies.
Everything else is secondary to that.
Now, how do you effectively pull one over on working people if you're artificially
suppressing their wages, right, and not paying people what they're worth and keeping
their benefits low?
How do you pull that fast one on the citizens of red states and Americans who continue
to vote for Republican economic policies?
Will you attack education at every level?
You keep people fearful of education.
You keep public schools under attack.
You keep universities under attack.
You try to defund public schools by making vouchers universally acceptable.
And if that fails, the third brick in the Republican approach to the middle class is when
I suppress your wage and keep you working two, three jobs just to get by, and I strip
your educational systems of the funding they need to ensure that even the poorest among
us have access to the best education available in this country.
The third thing you do is that, of course, you attack the integrity of any institution,
of any individual, of any opposition, of anyone who speaks or dares to criticize and point
out the utter fallacy, the failing nature of your economic and tax proposals.
So let me summarize, you keep people working their butts off or wages lower than they should
be.
And you keep people from getting the education that they deserve.
And then you make them distrust anyone who dares question that system.
All the while exploiting their economic pain, the pain in their families, their inability
to pay for housing and childcare and medication and health care.
And you blame the other side for it the entire time.
Crazy steps.
We come back.
We're going to be joined by Christina Reynolds, vice president of communications and content
at Emily's list.
We're going to talk about the crazy women's town hall that Donald Trump had today.
Yikes.
That's all coming up next here on the Maggie Don Show on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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