Changes Needed

There needs to be some very large changes in order to get our country back on track, and keep up with the changing types of jobs, climate change, healthcare, and the cost of living to include food, fuel and Social Security. One thing the current administration could do to help out the elderly is to undo Reagan’s taxing of Social Security followed by a cost of living increase. We need to start lowering the age eligibility for Medicare to at least to the age of 50 and eventually to Medicare for All. We need a universal basic income (UBI) in order to save our capitalist system. People have to have money to spend for without it the capitalist system withers on the vine and dies. Taxes paid on sales should stay within the city and county to fund fire departments, law enforcement, streets, parks, among others necessities. As usual, the republicans will scream, ‘how do we pay for treating our citizens with respect’ or ‘we can’t afford it.’ The same tired garbage they always trot out when they suddenly want to be fiscally conservative because Democrats are in office. We start by using the money we would have been using in the Afghanistan war, tax the rich, tax the churches, and bring back the money in offshore accounts and tax them, and return the inheritance tax. We also need to tax the use of our Commons. Why should companies make millions off what belongs to all of us? Our roads, air waves, air space, among others and placed that money into an account to for the UBI. It is time we all educate ourselves on how government works and what type of government we want or need. Then what type of people we want elected to make our government work. We also need to know what we need and be ready to fight for it, not only for us, but for our children and grandchildren. We must teach them the tools to make and keep a middle class and keep a world that is livable. With all the disinformation out there, we have our work cut out for us.