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Rebuilding RI’s Economy Via a Single-Payer System

Rebuilding RI’s Economy Via a Single-Payer System

By Samuel G. Howard on April 9, 2012

It’s time to liberate capital. Of course, the General Assembly won’t do that, because we’re committed to one simple principle right now: austerity. Cut budgets, cut taxes on the rich, and watch the middle class flee the state while the impoverished remain behind. See, we were facing a pension crisis and we had to tackle that. [...]

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