Joe has put his vision on the net but most of you wont read it. You prefer short bits so here it comes in a way you can understand for 4 simple areas. I’ll add on later after you chew on this.
- Biden Tax plan raises taxes $3.4T with 80% coming from top 1%. I’ll start right away with elephant in the room. We are where we are. We do need to raise incoming tax receipts. He has an ambitious plan but is funding it from those who can pay it. None of you reading this will be affected.
- Biden’s budget plan includes public investments in
- Education
- Universal access to Pre-K
- 2 years paid community college if you want it
- Tuition free for families under $125K
- Infrastructure
- $1.6T in water and transit Infrastructure along with some energy projects
- New housing assistance
- 12 weeks of universal paid maternity leave
- Boosts Social Security for elderly poor who had low lifetime earnings
- Biden is expanding healthcare but not to universal healthcare
- Expands ACA marketplances and subsidies for middle class
- Invests in elder care and makes Medicare available as young as 60
- Claims to offset spending with negotiating lower drug prices
- Biden addresses Immigration reform
- Reverses child separation policy
- Reinstates reasonable asylum policies
- Invests in case processing power not detention (in or out, not held in limbo)
- Kills the DOD funding of wall but does include money for border security
- Rescinds Muslim ban
- Protects Dreamers
- No DACA or pathway to citizen ship in the platform but will be pressured from Dems for sure
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1. More taxes. That’s great. We have a spending problem, joe. Not a tax issue. But do what liberals do... keep spending like no tomorrow and try to tax your way out of it. I’d bet good money his tax increase doesn’t cover the spending, but hey what’s the difference at this point?
2. EDUCATION: So throw more money at schools. Again, the typical lib solution to throw money at problems. We spend more per pupil than any other country (I believe, I’m nearly certain we are in the top 3). Yet our performance slips year after year. It isn’t a funding issue, it’s a management/curriculum/cultural
Issue. The downward trend started nearly exactly when the Department of Education was established. Free college, free this/that, more loans for people to go to school. Government involvement in providing loans is the reason for the soaring tuition and student debt!!! Stop giving loans for anything and everything. We can get into the details of this if you’d like, but I’ll spare us for now.
INFRASTRUCTURE: same old song and dance. Does it need to be done, yes. Is it the job of the federal government, yes to some degree. Will a bunch of money get pissed away on pork barrel projects, pay offs to unions to repave roads that were just paved, etc... better believe it.
HOUSING ASSISTANCE: don’t know what this entails. I am for helping the poor. However I bet this is a bunch more HUD social engineering. Guess we will see.
PAID MATERNITY LEAVE: ok
SOCIAL SECURITY: ok. How about we stop bleeding the system due to disability fraud? Tons of money goes out the window because of bullshitnsocial security disability. I see it every single day... people on SSDI for absolute bullshit reasons. Also putting kids on it for ADHD and other “behavioral and learning disabilities” which are BS, the parents (leeches themselves) have figured out a way to scam more money and get their kids diagnosed with all sorts of shit.
In addition, why do we give SS benefits to immigrants? People who don’t pay in get paid out. I see this one fairly frequently as well, how much is that costing us? How about we clean up the abuse and take the money saved and use it to increase benefits?
3. HEALTHCARE “INVESTMENTS”... aka more government involvement. As usual... throw money at it by way of subsidizing. Government involvement keeps driving costs up and up. How about we try some of the other proposals for controlling costs and we do it at the state level to have multiple different experiments going, see which works best.
Maybe I’ll come back and keep going if I have some time.
The immigration one should be a real winner.