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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow would you spend 1.2 trillion dollars to save lives in the US now?
We're facing a tidal wave of poverty in all age groups.
The job situation is bleak.
Healthcare costs are astronomical.
We have an aging population that has little to no retirement funds.
The safety net is disappearing; it's already disappeared in many places for many people already.
If 1.2 trillion dollars magically became available to use to directly assist as many US citizens as possible to save them from hunger and homelessness, how would you distribute it?
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)...for all.
The Social Security cap needs to disappear, we need wholesale tax reform so that we're taxing wealth, and we need to look to the best social systems abroad and adopt their best elements.
If we don't we will continue to decline.
We are in many ways a third world country as it is, and getting worse.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)...evil.
I would destroy them at the polls by educating the masses.
Then the symptoms would resolve on their own.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Expand food stamps so it is robust, expand public medical programs, ditto. Anything left over put into apprenticeship programs for working class youth.
If there is the political will, enact socialism. The only long-term solution will entail the wealth of our country going to social programs. Short of that, expanding the social safety net will help the working people survive until the next crisis of capitalism. I think we're starting to run short of elasticity in that system though...
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)Thank you for the replies.