the long and short of this agenda (courtesy of a ResetERA post:
GROCERIES AND FOOD
First-ever federal ban on corporate price gouging on food and groceries
Set clear rules so that corporations can't unfairly exploit consumers with pricing to run up excessive corporate profits
Empower the FTC and state attorney generals to investigate corporations for violating the rules
Aggressively regulate mergers and proposed consolidation among food producers and grocers
HEALTHCARE
Expand the $35 insulin cap for Medicare to all Americans, not just the elderly ones
Cap all Americans annual out of pocket prescription drug spending at $2,000/year
Ramp up Medicare negotiations with drug companies over their most expensive drugs
Regulate pharmaceutical companies that block competitive and abusive practices by middlemen
Cancel medical debt for millions of Americans
TAX CUTS
Extend Inflation Reduction Act subsidies and lower premiums for ACA
Expand Earned Income Tax Credit by up to $1,500
Restore the $3,000 per child tax credit from the Inflation Reduction Act
Expand the Child Tax Credit so that even the poorest of families receive it (currently families need to make a high enough annual income to receive it)
Increase the Child Tax Credit to $6,000 per child for first year newborns
HOUSING
$25,000 down payment assistance for first time homebuyers who have paid rent on time for at least two years
Tax credit incentives for home builders who build starter homes sold to first time homebuyers
Build 3 million homes
$40B to local state governments for building housing
Pass the Stop Predatory Investing Act, legislation that would prohibit investors who acquire 50 or more new single-family rental homes from deducting interest or depreciation on the properties.
Pass the Preventing the Algorithmic Facilitation of Rental Housing Cartels Act, legislation that cracks down on companies that allow landlords to collude to set high housing prices via software and price-setting algorithms.
It sounds to me like limiting spending, and reigning in those predatory intermediaries, would reduce that medical debt in the first place. Or am I missing something?
A whole lot of small but meaningful improvements... that nonetheless depress me on account of the fact that this is apparently the most we're allowed to vote for. And they're not even guaranteed in the least.
Still, I can at least keep going by remembering that this is a presidential race, and is thus among the least democratic aspects of the country, short of things like the Supreme Court. There are better, more impactful things for me to focus on.
Tax credits are nice, but are least likely to help people in poverty. A lot of them can't wait to claim the credit and if it's not refundable it may not help them at all.
Holy shit. These changes would be awesome. Not only would some of these changes help people in America, but I bet the ideas would spread elsewhere, too. Please oh please I want price gouging of groceries to stop.
Plus the rent stuff is huge too. People are struggling out here.
I've gotten a handful of raises over the past 4 years, and they have all been under inflation, so they might as well be demotions. LOL
I had a conservative coworker having her second and final child who won't qualify for this tax credit by the time it goes through (if ever), and I must say:
LoL
Tell me more about how God gave Israel to the Jews (but they're still going to hell)
Seems it depends on which elite/establishment, going by Wikipedia's definition: "populism" is the political stance of "the people" against "the elite/establishment"
So by that defn, both of these examples qualify:
The people being distrustful of the establishment of medical science
The people condemning the unfair practices of a monopolistic/oligopolistic establishment