| ▲ | bhouston 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Also please add as an option: raise taxes on the wealthy individuals and corporations back. https://inequality.org/article/11-charts-tax-wealthy-corpora... This is really ambiguous: "- stopping fraud" And can mean many things. On the right, it often means Somali daycares, on the left it means the underfunding of the IRS so that it doesn't do audits of rich people. I find this to be mostly a distraction: "- figuring out how the net worth of people in Congress increases from hundreds of thousands of dollars to 10s or 100s of millions of dollars" We should ban stock trading by members of the government, the Ro Khanna bill, but while it can be a source of corruption, it isn't a major source of inequality in the US. This is unclear, can you be more specific as it has different answers based on one's partisan leanings: "- addressing wasteful and ineffective programs" I think a lot of the distortion of US policy towards the rich is a result of Citizens United and similar unrestrained lobbying funds. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | roughly a day ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“Raising taxes” is a misnomer - “restoring taxes to the level they were when we were deciding how to allocate tax revenue” is more accurate. There’s plenty of other causes of the deficit, but “Congress deciding not to take money from wealthy people and corporations to fund the services they’d promised to the rest of us” is the core. We don’t have a budget deficit, we have a tax revenue deficit. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | brightball a day ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||