LostAggie66 wrote:
What is wrong with: Banning Copr.PACS, Banning Corp Lobbyists, Banning Dark Money from Super PACS, A Living Fed.Min. Wage of at least $12.00-$15.00hr. Holding Wall ST Accountable, Expanding Social Security and Banning members of Congress from active stock trading while in office. Expanding Medicare to provide Healthcare for All as a Basic human right ( Every other major capitalist country does this). A Wealth tax which would pay for 2yr Free Tuition for public universities or 2 or 4yr free tuition for public trade school, Universal child care for working parents. Raising the amount for Pell Grants for Middle and Lower class students.
What is wrong with breaking up the Big Agriculture conglomerates to help our farmers? Shutting down Predatory lenders of student loans who because of the ridiculous interest rates is causing the need for student loan forgiveness especially for ALL Middle and lower class students.
What is wrong with Expanding the Supreme Court, Setting term and age limits for both judges and politicians . Shutting the Electoral College and going to popular vote only. Why not end gerrymandering? Providing DACA recognition for children in the country illegally (Dreamers) .
If the States are not willing to approve and fund these programs then the Federal gov't should.
Of course there is another way to get the funds for these social programs: TAX the Church! Especially any church that interferes with the state(gov't) because they are then Businesses and NOT religious entities.
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You're batting about .500. We need campaign finance reform badly. We have the best politicians money can buy. We already have term limits for politicians, they're called elections. What we need are non-moron voters. Term limits should be imposed on the Federal Judiciary, from the SCOTUS on down.
The Electoral College was implemented as a safeguard against a few highly populated states bulldozing less populated ones. It has served that purpose well since the country's inception. The only people I have ever heard oppose it are big city Liberals from either the Northeast or the Left Coast.
The CATO Institute did a pretty thorough study about minimum wage and recommended a raise to about $9/hour. This was before your boy Biden's record-setting inflation, so that amount may have changed.
Concerning taxing Churches.... I suggest you re-read the First Amendment. This flies in the face of the First of the Bill of Rights. It is not your purview to decide what is a church and what is not.
Oh, yes, expanding the SCOTUS. Every time there is a Conservative majority this is the cry of Liberals all over the land. They are careful to only voice it when they have the majority in the Senate, however. Kind of like abolishing the filibuster and gerrymandering. Both were invented by Democrats and used very effectively in furthering their efforts. Harry Reid, when he was minority leader, made an impassioned defense of the filibuster, right up until his party took over the Senate, at which point he couldn't wait to abolish it. The reason there is a majority of Conservative Federal Judges now is because this blatant power grab came back and bit Democrats in the ass. Ditto for gerrymandering, a practice invented by a Democrat Governor. You were fine with it until it started being used against you.
As for student loan forgiveness; what did these people think was going to happen when they spent 30 grand getting a degree in "Gender Studies," or "Art Appreciation" or some other non-starter and couldn't find a job?
In Europe, it is tougher to get into college, and their free programs are in useful majors, like medical and engineering fields. They also have to actually finish the curriculum and get their degree.
There is nothing wrong with lots of help for critical fields such as computers, medicine, and some of the sciences.
Government run anything is inefficient. While our health care needs reform, putting a bunch of brainless bureaucrats in charge of anything is unlikely to have the desired effect.