Windparadox
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Here are ten issues the article mentions along with my opinions;
1. Single-payer health care - I support universal health care. It's time is overdue
2. $15 minimum wage - Too much, too little, too late. Such a move will force further mechanization, cause permanent lay offs, close businesses and reward people whose work even now is marginal.
3. Abolishing ICE - Stupid idea. Just because tump is abusing it is no reason to eliminate it.
4. Repealing the tax cuts - I can definitely support this.
5. Debt-free college - Yes. Not Free college but loans without all the high interest rates.
6. Net neutrality - 100% support.
7. A $1 trillion infrastructure plan - It's needed, that's for sure. Working out funding will be difficult.
8. Defense cuts - Definitely. Use the savings for infrastructure.
9. Ending “too big to fail” - Yes....and work out plans to abolish or change the laws that allowed for the "Citizens United" ruling.
10. Climate change - I favor the eventual elimination of fossil fuels to renewable/green energy.
The problem here is that the clintonian democrats will not change a damn thing.
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A Trump-inspired resurgence on the left has even many centrist Democrats embracing an outspokenly liberal wish list as their party hopes to capture one or both chambers of Congress in November. Just don’t count on any of it happening soon.
Even symbolic votes on the growing roster of progressive expectations could create political headaches for Democrats seeking the White House in 2020. That means "Medicare for all," debt-free college and a $15 minimum wage will remain more the subject of liberal aspirations than represent a real shift in the nation's policies.
President Donald Trump is already trying to tar progressive ideas as ballot-box poison, denouncing single-payer health care as Venezuela-style “socialism” (never mind that he endorsed it in 2000) and saying Democrats who want to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency must have a “death wish.” Democrats may have trouble uniting even on repeal of Trump’s $1.5 trillion tax cut, which received not a single Democratic vote in either chamber when it passed last year. - Source
Even symbolic votes on the growing roster of progressive expectations could create political headaches for Democrats seeking the White House in 2020. That means "Medicare for all," debt-free college and a $15 minimum wage will remain more the subject of liberal aspirations than represent a real shift in the nation's policies.
President Donald Trump is already trying to tar progressive ideas as ballot-box poison, denouncing single-payer health care as Venezuela-style “socialism” (never mind that he endorsed it in 2000) and saying Democrats who want to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency must have a “death wish.” Democrats may have trouble uniting even on repeal of Trump’s $1.5 trillion tax cut, which received not a single Democratic vote in either chamber when it passed last year. - Source
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Here are ten issues the article mentions along with my opinions;
1. Single-payer health care - I support universal health care. It's time is overdue
2. $15 minimum wage - Too much, too little, too late. Such a move will force further mechanization, cause permanent lay offs, close businesses and reward people whose work even now is marginal.
3. Abolishing ICE - Stupid idea. Just because tump is abusing it is no reason to eliminate it.
4. Repealing the tax cuts - I can definitely support this.
5. Debt-free college - Yes. Not Free college but loans without all the high interest rates.
6. Net neutrality - 100% support.
7. A $1 trillion infrastructure plan - It's needed, that's for sure. Working out funding will be difficult.
8. Defense cuts - Definitely. Use the savings for infrastructure.
9. Ending “too big to fail” - Yes....and work out plans to abolish or change the laws that allowed for the "Citizens United" ruling.
10. Climate change - I favor the eventual elimination of fossil fuels to renewable/green energy.
The problem here is that the clintonian democrats will not change a damn thing.
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