We deserve better
We can lobby and elect politicians who will make the US more fair, more productive, and profitable for every American
Jeff Pi
8/26/20243 min read
We deserve better
Universal healthcare
Free necessary medication
Living minimum wage
Free college and trade schools
Create and Keep jobs in America
Modern Infrastructure
Free child care
Family leave
Reduce the Income Gap
Social justice
Act to stop climate change
Stop school shootings
US Politicians ignore recommendations by Americans who suffer and die because they can’t afford healthcare. Healthcare outcomes are better in almost every other country that gives there citizens free healthcare. Almost every other country gives their citizens free healthcare. Free healthcare is a subsidy to corporations, small businesses, and entrepreneurs.
The United States pays the most for healthcare and yet healthcare outcomes in the US are worse. We don't get what we are paying for! US healthcare needs radical change to stop all the price gouging and profiteering in healthcare.
Doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals deserve great pay for all they do, in many cases they are probably underpaid, over worked, and under resourced. Universal healthcare will more fair. We deserve better.
No American citizen should have to go bankrupt or make hard decisions about receiving necessary healthcare because of cost. Paying for Universal Healthcare can be done without raising taxes on the middle class. Paying for Universal Healthcare can be done with a tax that replaces what employees and corporations already pay to provide health insurance. Perhaps taxing the oligarchy and billionaires a little more and taxing corporations who gouge American consumers and outsource jobs.
US politicians allow pharmaceutical companies to exponentially increase prices on life saving medicines causing untold deaths. Politicians prevent government agencies from negotiating lower costs. Why is that?
US politicians allow large extremely profitable companies to pay poverty wages. Their employees are eligible for welfare, subsidized housing, medicaid and food stamps. These highly profitable companies like Walmart pay higher taxes to cover the costs they're passing on to communities and working class tax payers.
College and Trade Schools should be free. Not enough Americans are working in high skilled well paying trades. It's shameful and means companies must find qualified workers elsewhere. Immigrants aren't stealing jobs: Americans don't know how to do them, don't want to do them, or companies send jobs abroad. Creating and keeping jobs in America requires companies and consumers to invest more in America. Buy American made products. American made products should have excellent quality, better than cheaper products made abroad.
US Politicians subsidize companies who outsource manufacturing and well paying jobs to foreign countries, eliminating skilled domestic. Companies send jobs abroad without finesax penalties. They should lose tax subsidies .
US Politicians enable utility companies to avoid financial risks building new utility infrastructure and to pass all the costs to consumers all while they profit on delays and inefficiency. When they complete new utility infrastructure they don't repay consumers who assumed all the risk and they don't reduce utility rates. Why do we allow this exploitation?
US Politicians allow US infrastructure to decay and neglect investments to maintain and modernize. This forces opportunity and investment to go somewhere else with modern infrastructure.
The top 1% hoard their wealth, primarily billionaires. They should be penalized for not creating jobs, for not making direct investment into the US economy. The United States is the largest economy on the planet, it won't remain that way without innovation, small businesses, and local economies. Too few massive corporations control all the wealth and only enrich themselves. They can afford to invest/donate more to America's small businesses, communities, job creators. They should be taxed and penalized for hoarding wealth.
The middle class should't have to pay federal income tax. The middle class returns nearly all of their earnings back into the economy and are taxed over and over again.
Social Justice shouldn't be so polarized, it deserves great attention. There should be no private prisons, it's perverse to profit off of incarcerating people. The Justice system needs better policies to stop over policing and murdering people because of discrimination. Education systems across the country are being white washed. America has a complicated history and it needs to be taught, we shouldn't repeat the mistakes of the past.
Common sense gun laws will dramatically reduce school shootings and mass shootings generally. No one wants to take away your guns! Most mass shooters are not long time, responsible gun owners. We want common sense gun laws. Gun violence is a huge problem yet government agencies are prohibited from studying it or making recommendations for solving it. Why?
Conservative or Liberal. Right or Left. We can do things that actually make society better for the whole if we focus on solving real issues instead of bickering over cultural and religious differences.