A New Deal for the 21st Century
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As a true Progressive, I would like a way to motivate our elected officials to invest in our country. The wars in the ME are a distration created by the fascist/cultist, pro-business factions within our country that have no remorse in destroying the middle class in our country.
We need equitable taxation starting with a reqeal of the Bush tax cuts. We need to lower the taxes on those making less than 50K a year and exponentially increase taxes on those making more than 100K a year. This would be the start of an equitable redistribution of wealth similar to what has been done in every other industrialized nation.
To restore our economy, we need a New Deal for the 21st century. We need to do this in a manner that protects our environment. A good start would be to create debt to finance the construction of high speed or maglev train systems that serve every region of our country. These need to be powered with electricity that is generated with no impact to the environment.
We need to faze out the use of all coal burning power plants and replace them with nuclear and renewable sources of energy.
To build this type of infrastructure would change our economy and stimulate growth. It would also be the best way to combat global warming in the US. The auto industry could reposition itself as a builder of the rail system and the oil/gas and other natural resourse raping lobby's can build the nuclear plants.
This type of growth will again create living wage jobs and stimulate the rest of our economy and save our environment.
Another aspect of this new deal is the necessity of single payer healthcare. This can be financed by the tax increases on those in the top 10% of wage earners (which is fair since they have been raping the American people long enough). Pharma needs to be required to donate dollar for dollar to research institutions for every dollar they spend on advertizing and lobbying and there needs to be price controls on their products. I work in the medical field and can see no reason other than greed (profiteering) for charging $3000.00 for an injection that some patients receive daily for months as they are being treated for cancer.
I have ranted enough. We need a New Deal for America for the 21st Century, and these are some ideas about how and where to start. Unless we make bold, progressive moves, our country will never regain the greatness that it once had.
We need equitable taxation starting with a reqeal of the Bush tax cuts. We need to lower the taxes on those making less than 50K a year and exponentially increase taxes on those making more than 100K a year. This would be the start of an equitable redistribution of wealth similar to what has been done in every other industrialized nation.
To restore our economy, we need a New Deal for the 21st century. We need to do this in a manner that protects our environment. A good start would be to create debt to finance the construction of high speed or maglev train systems that serve every region of our country. These need to be powered with electricity that is generated with no impact to the environment.
We need to faze out the use of all coal burning power plants and replace them with nuclear and renewable sources of energy.
To build this type of infrastructure would change our economy and stimulate growth. It would also be the best way to combat global warming in the US. The auto industry could reposition itself as a builder of the rail system and the oil/gas and other natural resourse raping lobby's can build the nuclear plants.
This type of growth will again create living wage jobs and stimulate the rest of our economy and save our environment.
Another aspect of this new deal is the necessity of single payer healthcare. This can be financed by the tax increases on those in the top 10% of wage earners (which is fair since they have been raping the American people long enough). Pharma needs to be required to donate dollar for dollar to research institutions for every dollar they spend on advertizing and lobbying and there needs to be price controls on their products. I work in the medical field and can see no reason other than greed (profiteering) for charging $3000.00 for an injection that some patients receive daily for months as they are being treated for cancer.
I have ranted enough. We need a New Deal for America for the 21st Century, and these are some ideas about how and where to start. Unless we make bold, progressive moves, our country will never regain the greatness that it once had.
1. Don't you think $100k is a little low for the bar on raising taxes. That is not the top 10%. Haven't you heard anything about the AMT?
2. Replace carbon emmissions with nuclear waste? Great idea. You will be the one complaining about "them" storing nuclear waste 100 feet under your house, because that is where it will end up.
3. Explain to me how a rail system is going to rejuvinate our economy. While infastructure is the basis of an industrialized economy, it is not the motivating factor.
4. Car companies make cars, not rail system. Why not ask software programmer to start building computers? While they seem to be related, they are quite different. Take a business class and learn just how difficult it would be to change your core comptenancy and business model.
You are right in that America does need a new plan. Before you post garbage in the future, try coming up with a plausible idea on how to fix it.
If we use your earlier rant about "fascist/cultist" factions, we can pretty much see you as a religious bigot. That's certainly not often an entry on a progressive's resume.