What are your platform ideas for the Democratic Party? [View all]
In another post, Celinda Lake, democratic pollster says we need to be FOR things. Here are my starter ideas:
- Preserve low-income housing from being bought/sold to private equity. A significant number of LIHTC (Low income housing tax credit) apartment complexes built in the 1990s got tax breaks to subsidize low income folks. Those tax breaks are expiring now and they are starting either sell them off, or convert them to luxury housing. States need to buy them instead. Cheaper than trying to build new low income housing.
- Private equity has also been buying up Section 8 housing. With HUD planning to cut back on Section 8, housing in poorer markets may get dumped. States should try to preserve that housing as well.
- Promote universal healthcare. Focus on getting corporations on board - they are about to be hit with massive increases in benefits costs. Unchain health benefits from employers, cut out the middlemen sucking money from healthcare delivery.
- Promote universal basic income paid for by taxes on AI. If they are going to kill jobs, it would be cheaper to do UBI than to deal with mass unemployment, homelessness.
- Claw back food stamp funds from corporations that don't pay high enough wages to live. Have them pay for the benefits that their inadequate wages don't cover.
- Reverse engineer every horrible thing in Project 25, and fix laws so that it can never happen again. Point-by-point.
What are your ideas?
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