

And what the plutocrats want would make it worse. Here's the thing: what the public wants actually would fix the borrowing. They want a Medicare-For-All health care plan, and in fact other countries have proven this solves the long-term health care cost problem. They want jobs programs and infrastructure investment and investment in the things that grow the economy. And polls show they want tax increases on the rich and cuts in military.

A poll shows what would happen if the deficit plans were drawn up by regular people. Include people who are on active duty in the military – the people who said they don’t need that expensive plane, but couldn’t get body armor.Ħ0 members would not have college degrees.ġ3 members would be receiving food stamps.Īnd guess what, when you take a poll, you are measuring what the public wants.

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(People who do manual labor get an extra vote each on what the retirement age should be.) The commission would include the right proportion of factory and construction workers, and people who work in a kitchen, and waiting tables, and teaching, and nursing, and installing tires, and all the other things that people do except, apparently, those on DC elite commissions. And on this deficit commission they get to talk when the ones making over $250K propose cutting Social Security.Ĥ3 of the commission members would have less than $10,000 saved up for retirement. Here is the real deficit commission that you would expect to see if we were a democracy instead of a plutocracy: It would have 100 members:ĩ8 of the 100 members would make less than $250,000 a year.ĥ0 of the members would come from households in which the total income of all wage-earners is less than $50,221.ġ7% of the commission members would be un- or underemployed, and would be wondering why they are on a deficit commission instead of a jobs commission.ġ9 people on the commission would receive some form of Social Security benefits, 12 of those as retirees. This is what happens when Wall Street and conservative Republicans design a plan: give even more to the already-wealthy few, gut what our government does for We, the People. Back then the deficit plan was (they all do) to cut taxes on the rich while increasing them on everyone else, and cut Social Security, even though Social Security has nothing whatsoever to do with the deficit. In January I wrote about this phenomenon in, Sen. The public isn't considered “serious.” Republicans and Wall Streeters are considered to be “serious.” In fact, things the public wants and needs are not considered at all in today's DC. Poll after poll shows one thing, DC plan after DC plan does another. It is put together by “serious” people so it is considered “serious.” This plan (they all do) cuts taxes for the rich and cuts the things We, the People (government) do for each other. Meanwhile, in DC the insider story is that the “Gang of 6” is “closing in” on a “deficit deal.” In all likelihood it will (they all do) end up being about cutting taxes for the rich and cutting the things We, the People (government) do for each other and cutting investment in the things that make our economy grow: infrastructure, education, science, job-creation, etc…Īnother popular DC-insider deficit plan is called “Simpson-Bowles.” This plan was put together by a right-wing Republican, former Republican Senator Alan “ three hundred million tits” Simpson and a Wall Streeter, Erskine Bowles, a member of the Board of Directors of Morgan Stanley. Post: “The Post-ABC poll finds that 78 percent oppose cutting spending on Medicare as a way to chip away at the debt … 72 percent support raising taxes … “ Yet another poll shows strong support for raising taxes on the wealthy, opposition to Medicare and Social Security cuts. So why do Washington deficit-reduction plans always do the opposite? And, in fact, if we did these things the deficit problem - caused by tax cuts for the rich and increases in military spending - would be fixed. Other polls show the public wants cuts in military spending, and increases in spending on infrastructure and other job-creation, economy-growing investment. Yet another poll is out, showing that the public wants taxes raised on the rich and on Wall Street and the giant multi-national corporations, and does not want cuts in the things We, the People do for each other.
