On Jan 4, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
regardless of everything else we all sign off on this minimum
program for economic reform in the interest of the majority, and all
Democratic Presidential candidates should adopt it. Such as:
Totally worthless is the thought behind any list, like this pathetic
series of generalities, that doesn't even mention, let alone be
centered on, the central problem confronting the whole human race--
catastrophic climate change resulting from the ongoing, even
accelerating, release of
CO2 and Methane into the atmosphere. Any political program NOT
centered on the imposition of a [largely and equally per capita
rebated] swingeing, steadily increasing, tax on all nonrenewable
carbon-containing fuels and on all imports from countries that do not
impose such a tax is entirely useless at best!
- raise the minimum wage and the earned income credit so the after-
tax minimum wage is a living wage
- expand Social Security
- bust up the big banks
- college students borrow at the same rate as the big banks, expand
college loan forgiveness for public service
- diversify appointments to economic policymaking positions so
they're not all coming from Wall Street
- reduce the trade deficit by lowering the dollar
- make it easier to form unions
- expand tax credits and other federal support for child care, home
health care
- speculation tax (financial transactions tax)
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
_______________________________________________
pen-l mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
