The Crazy Left

[ljm2002]

88. Here are my ideas:

Raise the cap on SS contributions, raise taxes on the wealthy and on corporations, pare down the bloated military budget, rebuild infrastructure, add high speed rail and solar and other green initiatives so we can get people back to work and get our industrial base humming again.

New buildings should be required to have solar panels and to meet stringent energy efficiency requirements.

Discourage cars and airplanes for long distance travel; build high speed rail to take up the slack. Mandate hybrids and electric cars, buses and trucks make up an increasingly higher percentage of the fleet.

Invest in research into ways of ameliorating the effects of greenhouse gases on our climate.

Encourage conservation and green living. Encourage local, self-sufficient economies, with policies that discourage energy-inefficient methods such as shipping food from overseas. Obviously this will take time, and also not everything can be done locally; just make sensible inroads in this direction as we must lower our carbon footprint.

Encourage working from home rather than commuting; if not every day, then a few days a week.

Lower standard working hours from 40 hrs/wk to 30 hrs/wk.

With the extra $$ flowing into SS from raising the cap, lower the retirement age and if possible increase benefits.

Guarantee a minimum base income to all Americans. This would be a far more efficient and less costly way to get rid of homelessness with all the societal and individual misery that it generates.

Single payer healthcare, i.e. Medicare for all (HR676).

Well, that's a start.