Sanders detailed a 12-point
economic program to break the Oligarch’s strangle hold on our economy and the
neck of the middle class.
From: http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/02/bernie-sanders-unveils-12-point-economic-plan-break-koch-oligarchs.html
- Invest
in our crumbling infrastructure with a major program to create jobs by
rebuilding roads, bridges, water systems, waste water plants, airports,
railroads and schools.
– Transform energy systems
away from fossil fuels to create jobs while beginning to reverse global warming
and make the planet habitable for future generations.
– Develop new economic
models to support workers in the United States
– Make it easier for
workers to join unions and bargain for higher wages and benefits.
– Raise the federal
minimum wage from $7.25 an hour so no one who works 40 hours a week will live
in poverty.
– Provide equal pay for
women workers who now make 78 percent of what male counterparts make.
– Reform trade policies
that have shuttered more than 60,000 factories and cost more than 4.9 million
decent-paying manufacturing jobs.
– Make college affordable
and provide affordable child care to restore America
– Break up big banks. The
six largest banks now have assets equivalent to 61 percent of our gross
domestic product, over $9.8 trillion. They underwrite more than half the
mortgages in the country and issue more than two-thirds of all credit cards.
– Join the rest of the
industrialized world with a Medicare-for-all health care system that provides
better care at less cost.
– Expand Social Security,
Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs.
– Reform the tax code
based on wage earners’ ability to pay and eliminate loopholes that let
profitable corporations stash profits overseas and pay no U.S.
My comment – The
Republicans counter with their plan that hinges on cutting taxes on the wealthy
and services to the lower 99%.
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