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.
In 2012 more than a quarter of all political contributions came from just 30,000 people who represented the 1 percent of the 1 percent, 90 percent who spent the most won. Today, we are an experiment in either a democracy, which started in 1787 or an oligarchy, which is winning. The nonunion people, like Trump and Musk, have most all the tools in their pockets to destroy our unions. They have money, they have the courts, they have law enforcement, they have the media, and 50 percent of workers that don’t know this don’t know the history of the working class people. This is the perfect storm to lose all the gains workers have made whether they’re union or not, even our Social Security and Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act. So, now we will have to go way back to the late 1920s and ‘30s and dig up the old labor party books. One book, written in 1964, has the information, The Rebel Voices, an IWW Anthology by Joyce L. Kornbluh, educator, activist, and advocate. The history of our labor...
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