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In reply to the discussion: Don't buy it... [View all]SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)22. Hillary is not a protégé of Reagan. She opposes Reaganomics.
Her plans include:
Fair growth
Inequality is a drag on our economy, and to get incomes rising again, we need to renew our countrys basic bargain. With near-record corporate profits and stagnant wages, the deck is stacked against working Americans. If you work hard, you deserve to get ahead and stay ahead.
Ensure more workers share in near-record corporate profits. Corporate profits are near record highsbut workers have not shared through rising wages. Profit sharing is linked to higher pay, benefits, and productivity. Thats why Hillarys plancreates a 15 percent tax credit for companies that share profits with workers on top of wages and pay increases.
Raising the minimum wage and strengthening overtime rules. Hillary believes we are long overdue in raising the minimum wage. She has supported raising the federal minimum wage to $12, and believes that we should go further than the federal minimum through state and local efforts, and workers organizing and bargaining for higher wages, such as the Fight for 15 and recent efforts in Los Angeles and New York to raise their minimum wage to $15. She also supports the Obama administrations expansion of overtime rules to millions more workers.
Reform our tax code so the wealthiest pay their fair share. Hillary supports ending the carried interest loophole, enacting the Buffett Rule that ensures no millionaire pays a lower effective tax rate than their secretary, and closing tax loopholes and expenditures that benefit the wealthiest taxpayers to pay for her plan to make college affordable and refinance student debt.
Inequality is a drag on our economy, and to get incomes rising again, we need to renew our countrys basic bargain. With near-record corporate profits and stagnant wages, the deck is stacked against working Americans. If you work hard, you deserve to get ahead and stay ahead.
Ensure more workers share in near-record corporate profits. Corporate profits are near record highsbut workers have not shared through rising wages. Profit sharing is linked to higher pay, benefits, and productivity. Thats why Hillarys plancreates a 15 percent tax credit for companies that share profits with workers on top of wages and pay increases.
Raising the minimum wage and strengthening overtime rules. Hillary believes we are long overdue in raising the minimum wage. She has supported raising the federal minimum wage to $12, and believes that we should go further than the federal minimum through state and local efforts, and workers organizing and bargaining for higher wages, such as the Fight for 15 and recent efforts in Los Angeles and New York to raise their minimum wage to $15. She also supports the Obama administrations expansion of overtime rules to millions more workers.
Reform our tax code so the wealthiest pay their fair share. Hillary supports ending the carried interest loophole, enacting the Buffett Rule that ensures no millionaire pays a lower effective tax rate than their secretary, and closing tax loopholes and expenditures that benefit the wealthiest taxpayers to pay for her plan to make college affordable and refinance student debt.
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/plan-raise-american-incomes/
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Reaganomics. Trickle Down. Free Market Economics Must Go- Good on Nick Hanauer
appalachiablue
Mar 2016
#4
Nick Hanauer calls himself a "happy capitalist" and very much supports a free market.
SunSeeker
Mar 2016
#9
Followed him for years and realize this. Yep, no true free markets, regulation's needed.
appalachiablue
Mar 2016
#11
Not progressive when it counts. When George Bush asked her to betray her fellow Democrats
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#25
And who paid the bill? Her corp friends or the lower classes? The lower 99%
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#42
Even when she decides people want something done, she only offers half-assed ideas.
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#43
I don't hate Clinton, I hate those that put Wealth and the accumulation of wealth
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#24
I've seen her plan. First of all she claims to want to put Americans to work but has always favored
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#44
Yet many people here love trickle-down as evidenced by their unconditional support of Hillary
whereisjustice
Mar 2016
#16
Rhetoric. " Hillary’s plancreates a 15 percent tax credit for companies that share profits with
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#27
Trickle, schmickle . . . their next plan is merely turning the spigot OFF.
HughBeaumont
Mar 2016
#41