New think tank paper proposes rafts of policies to crack down on price gouging at *airports & stadiums*: - “Street pricing" for concessions at airports w/ DOT grants, large venues w/ tax exempt bonds - Prices must be based on identical brand locations/comparable nearby

I’d love to get rid of all pro sports stadium subsidies, but short of that, demanding street pricing for publicly-funded stadiums is a solid idea 👇👇 groundworkcollaborative.org/work/street-pr…

If you haven’t filed your taxes yet, there’s still time to use Direct File—for free!! thehill.com/opinion/financ…

This is terrible, terrible, terrible news for the American people and the tax system. The only winners are high-cost tax preparers. When fully built out, Direct File would've saved taxpayers ~$20B annually. apnews.com/article/irs-di…

Direct File gained major traction to provide an easy, free option to file taxes to people across the country. This a big win for Intuit's profits on TurboTax, but a big loss for the public. apnews.com/article/irs-di…

Eligible for the presidency btw

The St. Petersburg City Council is set to vote on more luxury condo towers Part of the land where those towers would rise was once slated for a Moffitt Cancer Center campus. Ken Welch killed that project bc it didn't have enough affordable housing tampabay.com/news/st-peters…

DOGE said 40% of phone calls into Social Security centers were fraud, so it built a tool to track it. Turns out the 40% was actually 0.0018% and the tool slowed down processing significantly.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

Buried in the GOP megabill is yet another unwinding of public oversight and break on fees for the biggest corporations in the country. Our own Emily DiVito breaks it down ⬇️

Here's a state by state thread of the 338 rural hospitals across the country that are at risk of closing or cutting services if Republicans pass their Big Ugly Bill. 🧵

Florida's new state budget earmarks $15 million of taxpayer money to the "Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom" at Florida International University. Let's see what the Adam Smith Center has been up to:

"We’re back to tracking hurricanes like it’s 1999. Except this isn’t a party. And people could die." My latest column for NBC 6 South Florida is about the latest blow of this country's incomprehensible affront to #science since January. nbcmiami.com/news/local/joh…

Right now, no one knows: -how large the Medicaid cuts are -how many people will lose health insurance -how large the tax cuts are -who wins/loses by how much -how much it adds to the deficit Rs are going at lightning speed BECAUSE they want to pass it before anyone knows

Ron DeSantis also approved a $2 million gift for the horseracing industry in this year's budget. He cut nearly $600 million in spending – including money for housing, river restoration & public broadcasting. But he didn't touch the subsidy for owners of thoroughbred racehorses.

The program worked flawlessly and saved taxpayers time and money. The Trump Administration killed it because a couple well-connected tax prep companies wanted them to. So be sure to thank them when you’re shelling out money for private tax prep services next year.

Republicans are falling all over themselves to hype Trump for bringing prices down because the Walmart Thanksgiving basket is cheaper this year, but... It is a different basket. It has fewer items, different items, and different brands. For example, last year had a premade pie.