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In a bid to quell the unrest well the governor of minnesota has tried to dampen the protest saying he understands why the anger comes from we dont just right near the top on Educational Attainment we rank near the top on personal incomes on homeownership on life expectancies things that make this and one that came out a while back we we rank 2nd in a survey of the 50 states 2nd in happiness behind hawaii but if you take a deeper look at peel it back which this week its peeled back all of those statistics are true if youre white if youre not we rank near the bottom. And what this week is showing all of us is those 2 things cant operate at the same place well police have been criticized for their response in some cities including in new york where a Police Vehicle was seen in a video ramming protesters behind a barricades footage shared online shows demonstrators blocking the path of 2 cars in the streets before one lurched forward into the crowds new York Police Say 345 people were arre
Washington d. C. Where at one point protesters trying to break through a fence near the white house. Just when we thought it was over during the day i dont know if it bode well because the police a bit over the. Medicine every other if you will a drizzle they usually do it well what happened was the protesters were so we can this part of the way. Through to the bit as you can see so far its used to hold together with several banks around but now you can see these trains are here because it actually stays were a little bit and as soon as the cops saw that there is a military police as soon as the people here through that they started firing tear gas pepper spray. Well in the west of the country there are intense scenes in los angeles. Demonstrators they were sitting on the ground refusing to move despite violating the citys curfew many of them have now been arrested the mother of george fords daughter has made her 1st Public Statement choking back tears she paid an emotional tribute to
Embassy compound Iraqi Security forces calling it a rocket attack near the celebrations area inside the green zone the another incident happened in the neighborhood in a residential apartment off baghdad and the 3rd incident and north of baghdad inside i have been province and ill balad base where some store rooms were headed and weve also heard from one leader of the militia has been has been our brigade which has been deemed as a terrorist organization by the United States that all iraqi forces should distance themselves from u. S. Bases from sunday on birds so it is a state of high alert for Iraqi Security forces as they brace themselves for what they expect is going to be some sort of a reaction and weve also seen a flurry of diplomatic activity to try and deescalate the situation in that region this is being spearheaded by others foreign minister who went to the iranian capital and met not just the president but his counterpart as well iran insisting that this attack which happene
That should be the basic ingredients of tax reform. First it should be fair to taxpayers of this country. The tax bill enacted two years ago was certainly not fair. It failed in that test. As i pointed out, who benefited . Well, large corporations benefited dramatically by this bill, but they said look, well pass it on to the workers. But did they pass it on to the workers . In 2018, 1. 1 trillion were used to repurchase stock to make the wealthiest even wealthier and did not go to the benefit of the workers. It benefited the greatest on the personal income tax side to the highest income taxpayers. They are the ones who benefited the most. It was not fair to middleclass taxpayers. Secondly, a tax reform bill should be fiscally responsible. After all, we have taxes in order to raise revenue, in order to pay for services so we dont borrow from the future for our children and grandchildren to pay for what were doing today. The administration said that this would be a fiscally responsible