Students in Massachusetts will get free lunch and breakfast at school thanks to a new 4% tax put on people who earn more than $1 million.

  • Sami_Uso@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s fair to wonder why policy changes like those are being pushed so late into the presidents term. Seems like primaries and elections drive policy more than anything else.

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      1 year ago

      He’s been pretty busy. The Inflation Reduction Act, the Safer Communities Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is a decent list for the first 2 years in office. A lot isn’t super progressive but it’s unlikely the ideas you’re hearing about now will pass in their most progressive form either. But you have to start pretty far left to get anything even moderately left of center.

      And, I know our election cycle makes it seem super late, but we’re like 5/8 of the way into his term. Just a bit over half way.

    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org
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      1 year ago

      Yes, you are right!

      It is always the go-to for politicians, I see it workong less and less as more people get informed.