Podcast appearances and mentions of meg wiehe

Meg Wiehe, is the deputy director of the institute of taxation and economic policy it's a bunch of leftist. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Water outages continue in Jackson as treatment and distribution facilities struggle to reach pressure levels high enough to service parts of the city.Then, the Mississippi Tax Freedom Act receives scrutiny from policy analysts and state leaders.Plus, the Mississippi's Public Service Commission announces a comprehensive review of the the state's utility infrastructure.Segment 1:Water outages continue in the capital city following last month's severe winter event. Prolonged temperatures at or below freezing during the storm caused officials to shut down the city's water treatment and distribution facilities. Since returning online, the systems have not yet reached the pressure necessary to service parts of the city located far from the plants. During a briefing yesterday, Public Works Director Charles Williams said the department is doing a number of things to restore water. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba says the city's facilities were not meant to be shut down for days - as they were during last month's storm. He says full restoration of water service comes down to one key factor.Segment 2:Last week, House Republicans introduced the Mississippi Tax Freedom Act - a comprehensive tax reform bill advocates say claim will attract new business and create new economic opportunities in the state. But some analysts say the plan could be ineffective in accomplishing that. Meg Wiehe is Deputy Executive Director at the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy. In part two of her conversation with our Michael Guidry, Wiehe breaks down that philosophy and offers a comparative analysis to other states that have undergone similar restructuring.Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann says the bill raises questions - especially regarding where revenues would balance cuts. He shared more on the bill during a press conference yesterday.Segment 3:Mississippi's three Public Service Commissioners are unanimously announcing comprehensive review of the Magnolia State's public utility infrastructure. The review comes on the heels of a recent weather storm that has resulted in lingering after-effects both at home and in other areas of the region - like Texas, where residents went days in frigid temperatures without electricity. Dane Maxwell is Chair of the Commission. He shares more with our Kobee Vance. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Meg Wiehe is the Deputy Director of the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy. In Newsweek Magazine, Ms.Wiehe writes that state governments should not wait for Washington to soak the rich with higher taxes. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Episode 180 It is quite something to hear the elites in Washington—especially Republican members of Congress and the menace in the White House—blather on about wanting to wait to see how well the previous, inadequate fiscal stimulus works before deciding whether to do anything else. That's while tens of millions of people are in the streets, huge lines of hungry people form every day across the nation and states and cities are on the brink of financial ruin. States and cities not only employ collectively millions of people but, my god, their services—from education to just picking up the garbage—are damn essential. And you don't need a computer to get that with the economy shut down and people sheltering at home, revenue to the states through incomes taxes and other taxes has nosedived. It's just around the corner, folks: when there are gaps in local budgets, especially at the state level, they are coming after us with cuts pretty quickly to our services, our pensions and our communities. I welcome back Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, to wrap our minds around this: Congress should make up any shortfalls states and cities face—and we should use this crisis to also fix the decades-long, deeply crazy, screwed up ideology that skimped on strong government in favor of low taxes for the rich and corporations. Then, I circle back to what's happening with poultry, hog and meat processing workers in a conversation with, Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail Wholesale and Department Stores Union, as we focus mainly about the crazed notion of forcing plants to open up even if COVID-19 is raging through the workplace.

Episode 180: It is quite something to hear the elites in Washington—especially Republican members of Congress and the menace in the White House—blather on about wanting to wait to see how well the previous, inadequate fiscal stimulus works before deciding whether to do anything else. That’s while tens of millions of people are in the streets, huge lines of hungry people form every day across the nation and states and cities are on the brink of financial ruin. Support the podcast here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast States and cities not only employ collectively millions of people but, my god, their services—from education to just picking up the garbage—are damn essential. And you don’t need a computer to get that with the economy shut down and people sheltering at home, revenue to the states through incomes taxes and other taxes has nosedived. It’s just around the corner, folks: when there are gaps in local budgets, especially at the state level, they are coming after us with cuts pretty quickly to our services, our pensions and our communities. Support the podcast here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast I welcome back Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, to wrap our minds around this: Congress should make up any shortfalls states and cities face—and we should use this crisis to also fix the decades-long, deeply crazy, screwed up ideology that skimped on strong government in favor of low taxes for the rich and corporations. Support the podcast here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast Then, I circle back to what’s happening with poultry, hog and meat processing workers in a conversation with, Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail Wholesale and Department Stores Union, as we focus mainly about the crazed notion of forcing plants to open up even if COVID-19 is raging through the workplace. Support the podcast here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast -- Jonathan Tasini Follow me on Twitter @jonathantasini Sign up for The Working Life Podcast at: www.workinglife.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.tasini.3

Meg Wiehe, is the deputy director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and a state tax policy. In Newsweek magazine Ms. Wiehe writes that state government should not wait for Washington to soak the rich with higher taxes. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Meg Wiehe from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy explains the leading progressive tax plans in Congress and how they differ from Trump’s tax cuts. Related reading: Understanding Five Major Federal Tax Credit Proposals American Family Act Working Families Tax Relief Act LIFT Act LIFT+ Act Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 129: Just hours ago, 25,000 teachers and their supporters massed in Portland, Oregon to demand a fully-funded education system—it’s another moment in the incredible teacher organizing that has swept the country over the past year. With the energy of thousands of revved up teachers pulsing in the background, I chat at the rally with teacher/union leaders, as well as bring other voices from the mobilization. Then, in the richest nation in human history, 11.5 million children live in poverty. Children. I talk with Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, about the Child Tax Credit and the new move to get states to fill the hole in the federal CTC system, and maybe even bump up the miserly amount given to families who need it most to make sure kids can eat and be clothed. And here’s a pro tip for climate change activists: if you want to build bridges with coal miners who might not be on board with your agenda, you could start, in a small way, by marching with them as they try to save their pensions, which effectively are being stolen by big corporations using bankruptcy laws. United Mine Workers official Phil Smith joins me to look at the crisis in pensions and a big campaign to get Congress to make sure miners get what was promised them for many decades. I also want to note that Larry Hanley, the president of the ATU, passed away last night at the age of 62. I knew Larry for many years and worked closely with him for the last several years. He was one of the few national labor leaders who moved his union in support of Bernie Sanders in 2016. A True progressive. He will be missed.

In Newsweek magazine Ms. Meg Wiehe writes that state government shouldn't wait for Washington to soak the rich with higher taxes. She says, the States should begin to do that themselves. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Episode 111: I circle back on the bad deal made by politicians in New York and Virginia with Amazon, honing in specifically on the vicious anti-unionism Amazon pursues—and, despite the hallucinating by the NYC mayor that somehow bringing Amazon to NYC will magically turn it into a fuzzy pro union company, I talk with Dave Mertz of the RWDSU about the global path littered with Amazon’s attacks against unions and against workers. Dean Baker, frequent guest and senior economist of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, talks with me about the real profit centers for corporations—control over patents and copyrights, all of which adds up to one trillion dollars more in corporate profits, and hits on the average person’s wallet. Lastly, racism is a little talked-about aspect of the GOP tax cut robbery last year—Meg Wiehe, the deputy director of the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, talks with me about her recent excellent report called, “Race, Wealth and Taxes: How the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Supercharges the Racial Wealth Divide”. -- Jonathan Tasini Follow me on Twitter @jonathantasini Sign up for The Working Life Podcast at: www.workinglife.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.tasini.3

Episode 81: The teachers’ uprisings around the nation have challenged the bankrupt ideology of supply-side tax cutting—and maybe marks a shift in the public’s view of taxes and public spending. I talk about that with Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy. I welcome back Arizona teacher activist Amber Gould for an eyewitness account of the Arizona mass rally, and what it means for politics in the state. I also chat with David Rosnick of the Center for Economic and Policy Research about how much worse inequality really is despite some statistics floating around. Our Robber Baron of the week is, again, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos who is trying to scuttle a tax to fund affordable housing in Seattle.