WASHINGTON — Get an introductory Jacobin subscription for just $20 H ere’s a question progressives get asked constantly: Fine, you want universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy — but how are you going to pay for it? As part of the Game Changers project , economists Gerald Epstein and Aaron Medlin just answered it with a full accounting.
They price out the thirty policies in the Game Changers initiative and show, line by line, how to fund them without adding a dime to the deficit — by taxing wealth and capital the same way the United States already taxes wages and by shrinking a military and immigration-enforcement budget that is both bloated and destructive. The burden of the increased taxes they propose would fall most heavily on those in the upp
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