Excellent list of demands suggested for OWS -

[spedtr90]

The blog SarcasticLiberal.blogspot.com has posted a suggested list of demands for the Occupy Wall Street protests. I like that it covers the major points and is very specific.

This is a bare outline of the proposals - go to the site for details of each of the 6 demands.

I also think it is a good start for a 2012 democratic platform...


1) PROMOTE FAIR TAXATION
1A: The tax code must be reformed to tax the rich at a higher percentage of their income than any lower bracket.
1B: Corporations and rich individuals must pay their taxes upon making a profit rather than when they repatriate the money.

2) GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS
2A: Corporations are not people under the law and have no right to interfere in politics
2B: Publicly fund the majority of elections by giving time and money to all candidates that attain a certain level of support.
2C: Ban all politicians and high level aids from lobbying until five years after they have left the public employ.

3) STOP THE DECONSTRUCTION AND PRIVATIZATION OF THE NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
3A: A complete moratorium on privatizing: Police, Fire protection, Military,
3B: Increased regulations and limits on privatizing: Education, Water/Sewer, Roads
3C: In addition to the increases in regulations and limits to what can be privatized, I also propose a national single payer healthcare program coupled with a removal of the limits to importation of pharmaceuticals.
3D: Protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid against all attacks.

4) PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF WORKERS
4A: Protect the right to unionize and put up legislative blocks to prevent state or federal politicians from attempting to ban unions for partisan gain.
4B: Increase the minimum wage to an amount that allows people to live with a decent standard of living without working over 40 hours a week.
4C: Protect the worker's rights to vacation days, sick days, safe working conditions and 40 hour work weeks.

5) STOP THE REGULARORY RACE TO THE BOTTOM
5A: Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act so that banks are unable to gamble with our money
5B: Limit large corporate bonuses based upon short term profit when the short term gain is harmful in the long term.
5C: Arrest those responsible for our economic collapse and charge them for their fraudulent actions.
5D: Enact far stricter emission and pollution regulations on all toxic or environmentally dangerous chemicals.

6) DEBT
6A: Put an immediate ban on all evictions due to mortgage defaults. 6B: Allow all mortgages to be renegotiated so that people are not paying above the market rate for their home mortgages.
6C: Remove the interest rates for all mortgages deemed toxic where the banks acted in bad faith.
6D: Enact an immediate and one-time removal of all interest on current student loans so that the student is only liable for the principle of the loan.
6E: Increase the payment flexibility and decrease the interest rates for all student loan debts where the student has graduated.

SarcasticLiberal.blogspot.com

[jwirr]

1. I would be happy to sign on. We should all take this along with us to

our caucuses and present it as a proposal for the platform.

[socialist_n_TN]

2. Well, it's something

Or I would say it's a start.

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. I especially like 2, 3, and 6. K&R!