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#VicePresident #KamalaHarris to hike the #corporate #tax #rate to 28% to get '#money in the #hands of #middle, #working #class'

The push to increase the taxes is a “fiscally responsible” way to put money in the hands of the working class and to make the billionaires and corporations pay their “fair share.”

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After months of shooting down #drones over the #Middle East, the cost of those interceptions is getting too high. Efforts to take out #UncrewedAerialSystems(#UAS) are now exceeding $100,000 per shot.

The Standard Missile-2, a medium-range surface-to-air missile alone can cost $2.1 million per shot. #Israel #Gaza #RedSea

#US needs cheaper ways to shoot down drones, Pentagon acquisition chief says
taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactic

First #School #Shooting of 2024 Leaves One #Dead, Five #Injured

Classes had just resumed at #Iowa’s Perry High School.

The attack, which unfolded at Perry High School just after 7:30 a.m. local time, led to the death of an unnamed sixth-grader, according to Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the Division of Criminal Investigation at the Iowa Department of Public Safety. It was not immediately clear why that victim, a student at Perry #Middle #School, was at the

motherjones.com/politics/2024/