💷Pensioners still in work will be forced to pay National Insurance Contributions (NIC) for the first time, as Boris Johnson announced a £36 billion tax raid to pay for his social care reforms https://t.co/jlRQvjZFWy
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) September 7, 2021
Wednesday's Guardian: "PM stakes reputation on £12bn health plan – but will it deliver?" #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/7FuHsAa3Vz pic.twitter.com/ugo834XEFc
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) September 7, 2021
Likely still going to vote it through no doubt
— Patrica Farr (@FarrPatrica) September 7, 2021
Interesting that Boris Johnson is happy to use the fact that we are still dealing with a pandemic and its impact when hiking a tax on workers next year – but yet he considers the pandemic and its impacts over when it comes to removing the £20 uplift in Universal Credit next month
— Liam Thorp (@LiamThorpECHO) September 7, 2021
Tory social care failure is not simply how they plan to raise funding – it’s that they have no plan of how to use it. It’s time for NHS-style Social Care: free at the point of need, with secure higher paid care staff. Don’t “fix” the system. Transform it. https://t.co/g8qSmKoId4
— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) September 7, 2021
Crucial response from that press conference for me was Sajid Javid admitting he can't say how much money social care will actually get and when, because it all depends on how NHS gets on with clearing the backlog. NHS bosses say it could take ten years…
— Kate McCann (@KateEMcCann) September 7, 2021
Fun fact.
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) September 7, 2021
Only 15% of the £36bn announced by the government to fix social care will go to fixing social care.https://t.co/n2rKkzOjEL
It will probably come as no surprise to anyone to learn that Boris Johnson has refused to rule out further tax rises https://t.co/iG0bRI6phF
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) September 7, 2021
No one gives a shit that Boris Johnson has broken a manifesto pledge on tax.
— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) September 7, 2021
People think that funding social care is important, and they'll accept an unfair way to pay for it *unless* someone makes the case for a better alternative.
Say what you like about Boris Johnson (and I often do) but he’s good at politics.
— Matt Chorley (@MattChorley) September 7, 2021
Getting the Labour Party to come out against a tax rise for the NHS is quite a manoeuvre.
And “nobody had a pandemic in their manifesto” is a great line – which benefits from being true
The tax share is now at a 60 year high – but in 1960 the contribution from rates, inheritance tax, capital gains and higher incomes were very much higher than now. Labour had a summer to work on an alternative plan – but ventured nothing. Their silence gave Johnson a free run.
— Will Hutton (@williamnhutton) September 7, 2021
Elsewhere…
Pres. Biden is set to deliver remarks Thursday on a new strategy to stop the spread of the contagious delta variant. https://t.co/8XhBSYgShW
— ABC News (@ABC) September 7, 2021
On Thursday, Biden is going to announce a bunch of smart, common sense stuff that we should do to mitigate the spread of delta while we continue pushing vaccinations.
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) September 7, 2021
Also on Thursday, all of the things Biden announces are going to be completely ignored by red states.
"since Sturgis began in August, infection numbers shot up 600% in SD. We can expect to increases in other states too since bikers returned home. Last year post-Sturgis saw massive outbreaks across ND, SD, WY, IN, NV. probably caused thousands of deaths" https://t.co/vfYeGXZNce
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 7, 2021
Dems should lean hard into condemning GOP sabotage of our Covid response. This will illustrate the concrete dangers of GOP extremism and activate the pro-public-health majority. In the Virginia Gov race, Dems are now doing this. It's a key test. My latest:https://t.co/XxgDIUL0xq
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) September 7, 2021
"I know there are other important things — Covid's really important, economic rebuilding's really important — but if half the country becomes undemocratic and Republicans are able to run the board on votings rights, that's game over," John Heilemann says. https://t.co/v2bWqQHxf7
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 7, 2021
Amid a fourth wave of infections, health experts and medical groups are pushing to stamp out the use of a decades-old parasite drug to treat COVID-19. Ivermectin is a cheap drug used to kill worms and other parasites in humans and animals. https://t.co/Nj3qz3Tn7Q
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 7, 2021
You should be expelled from Congress for this tweet. 506 Americans died YESTERDAY from COVID-19, you sick lout. When is this dangerous, willful stupidity going to become socially taboo? You should be embarrassed of yourself. #MakeStupidityEmbarrassingAgain https://t.co/xGnWmgxrjJ
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) September 7, 2021
And…
BREAKING: Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an elections overhaul into law that adds more voting restrictions, after Democrats spent months protesting what they say are efforts to weaken minority turnout and preserve the GOP's eroding dominance. https://t.co/F6IjgURmAk
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 7, 2021
Democracy dies in the Republican Party. https://t.co/AmBnCbQdVg
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 7, 2021
▪︎ Bans 24-hour and drive-thru voting
— CNN (@CNN) September 7, 2021
▪︎ New vote-by-mail ID mandates
▪︎ Bans officials from mailing unsolicited mail-in ballot applications
▪︎ Empowers poll watchers
▪︎ New requirements for assisting voters
▪︎ Monthly voter roll checks https://t.co/BhfZ6Q3fTa
The passage of new voting restrictions in Texas last month exacerbated a growing divide in the country over ballot access, with red and blue states increasingly moving in opposite directions on election policy. https://t.co/iWxtxLmkb6
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 7, 2021
The Overnight Note 