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.
It’s time to pick a side. You want to have and keep unions with good wages and pensions, then it’s time to pick a side. You want to keep Social Security for yourself and family, it is time to pick a side. You want to get or keep Medicare and Obama’s Affordable Care Act, then it’s time to pick a side. It is us against the billionaires. The very rich got that way off the backs of workers, and now want to strip everything away from those workers. It’s time to pick a side. The very rich can buy countries, then make the people get on their hands and knees and grovel and beg for scrapes that usually go into the dumpster. It’s time to pick a side. Is this what we want for our family and our future? It’s time to pick a side. Get ready to fight for you and your families’ lives. There is no middle ground with these greedy people for they want it all—all the money—all the power—all the land so where does this leave us when they have all the commons, like water, land and airways? It’s time to pick...
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