Beto O'Rourke is getting all the attention, but Elizabeth Warren's economic policy proposals are....

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Warren's plans represent what many financially squeezed voters say they want: a clear and comprehensive accounting of how a would-be president would reduce their burdens.

In practice, voters respond to specific proposals less than personal charisma or simple familiarity. That explains why the Massachusetts senator lags behind opponents such as Beto O'Rourke, who recently joined the contest, in national polling, fundraising and media attention.

Yet a 2020 debate about average families' struggles to get ahead plays to Warren's strengths as a bankruptcy scholar, consumer advocate and second-term senator.

John Harwood | @johnjharwood
Published 8:01 AM ET Mon, 25 March 2019 Updated 6 Hours Ago


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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., questions Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin during a Senate Banking Committee hearing in Dirksen Building titled Domestic and International Policy Update, on May 18, 2017.
About 14,000 more families would pay taxes on estates worth over $7 million. That would finance 3 million new affordable housing units for low-income families.


The 75,000 richest families would pay a 2 percent tax on the value of their wealth above $50 million; the 900 families worth more than $1 billion would pay another 1 percent. That would finance child care and early childhood education for 12 million kids under 5 — free of charge for families below 200 percent of the poverty line.

Workers would gain more clout by acquiring the power to elect 40 percent of large corporate boards. Consumers would face technology behemoths a little smaller than today. Corporations could not wield influence by hiring ex-lawmakers and Cabinet members to lobby the government on their behalf.

Each of these proposals from Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren would be difficult to enact, at best. Each would arouse fierce opposition from those who would pay the bill, including the economic titans of Wall Street.

FULL story: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/25/beto-orourke-gets-the-attention-but-warrens-proposals-lead-2020-pack.html

[itsrobert]

1. I don't know. Seems like Warren has gotten a lot

of attention. False narrative.

[Bradshaw3]

2. I disagree

No candidate has done a better job of putting forth substantive propsals than Warren, yet everything from Beto's counter hopping to Biden's gaffes to Sanders' hires has gotten more attention than them. That may be par for the course but it certainly is the case here.

[itsrobert]

4. Looks like you are focusing on the others negatives.

In that case, Warren has had large media coverage for her conflicting anchestry. Rightly or wrongly.

[Bradshaw3]

6. No I was focusing on media coverage

Which is what the post was about. Beto jumping on a counter isn't a negative, just what the media covered. I'm not sure what "conflicting anchestry" is supposed to mean. She said her family told her she had Native American ancestry and a DNA test showed that was true. That isn't a conflict.

[itsrobert]

7. Jumping on a table?

Didn't we just see coverage of Warren running to board a train? http://m.tmz.com/2019/03/25/senator-elizabeth-warren-running-train-mueller-report-2020-election/

[BannonsLiver]

10. It's actually mayor Pete who is getting all the attention in this forum.

The OPs statement is rather dated.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. At least some proposals are being generated. Need to start somewhere to address the !% ...

versus the 99% of us in income inequality. A gross income inequality. This disparity has the ability to actually stifle economic growth since the wealthy tend to hoard their wealth, and not spend it to enable our consumer driven economy to keep humming along. If so much wealth is hoarded, then economic measures enacted by the Fed Reserve Board and others to stimulate the economy have less impact.

[Perrenial Voter]

5. No question that she has the most intelligent proposals for the

domestic economy.

[Horse with no Name]

8. I really like her.

She has great ideas. I’d like to see her on the ticket.

[demmiblue]

9. K&R