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July 12, 2018

Modest Proposal: A lottery in Mississippi will finally make the poor pay their ‘fair share’

Special to Y’all Politics By Pepper Bryars We often hear that the rich should be made to pay their “fair share,” but the top 20 percent of earners are already paying about 84 percent of our nation’s income taxes. Some say that’s a reasonable apportionment from each according to their ability, but here’s a modest proposal for…
Opinion  |  Editor  • 
July 11, 2018

@AP completely mangles coverage of partisan redistricting lawsuit

by Alan Lange On Monday, a lawsuit was filed by a formerly unsuccessful political candidate and a variety of left-leaning public interest non profit legal organizations that seeks to target a leading Republican legislator and redistrict one single Mississippi senate seat for 2019. That’s a lede. But that’s not the one you read in local…