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MIDTERM COFFEE BREAK!
The Healthy Dose Of Economic Liberalism You Need This Week
A reminder why we should all vote for Democrats.
4 min readOct 27, 2022
- If we actually ran America like a business the way Republicans say they want, we’d immediately fire a bunch of red states and kick them out of the Union for bad performance reviews in most metrics of societal success, and for not adding much value to the corporation in profits (taxes).
- The person buying a yacht with another yacht inside, and a helicopter pad, and a full-time crew of dozens is a bigger societal parasite than the person buying a steak on his birthday with food stamps.
- From the environment to healthcare, and from education to labor rights, you’re getting screwed while billionaires race to become trillionaires.
- Progressive taxation is the logical, rational, moral, modern way a democracy doesn’t self-destruct.
- America needs to tie the minimum wage to the cost of living index and inflation. The minimum wage has not increased for a decade, while the goal of a healthy economy is for inflation to go up about 2% every year. Every year for 10 years, America’s minimum wage earners have gotten pay cuts.
- Menial labor still deserves a livable wage. Just because some labor is…
