Raise the federal minimum wage, so that it reaches $15/hour, while indexing it to inflation. (Likely to kill jobs. I would abolish it entirely to prove it's useless, and to create jobs and, if employers abuse it, reinstate it with a vengeance.)
Reform the National Labor Relations Act, to enhance workers’ right to organize and rebuild the middle class. (The middle class is being wiped out by high taxation and regulation.)
Pass comprehensive immigration reform to grow the economy and protect against exploitation of low-wage workers. (Reforms have never worked in this regard, and expolited immigrants have it so much better here than they did in their homelands that they hardly ever complain.)
Oppose trade deals that hand more power to corporations at the expense of American jobs, workers’ rights, and the environment. (These trade deals have lifted millions worldwide out of poverty. They rankle unions that want no competition and thirst for sky's the limit costs.)
Pass national paid sick leave. (As if this country isn't generous enough in these matters.)
Pass national paid family leave. (See above.)
Make Pre-K, after-school programs and childcare universal. (Since the 60's, when fathers were replaced by government checks, the left has tried, and failed, to come up with programs to amend the damage they've done.)
Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit. (I favor a flat tax on all Americans, or a national sales' tax, which cheaters would find difficult to avoid. Given the species, I suppose some would find a way to game that too.)
Allow students to refinance student loan debt to take advantage of lower interest rates. (I would probably support this, warily, as it has been the government's policies that have raised college costs to such a riculous degree.)
Close the carried interest loophole. (I don't know what this is.)
End tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. (As a consumer, I want costs to be as low as possible, and this would raise them.)
Implement the “Buffett Rule” so millionaires pay their fair share. (I favor a flat tax that would be fair to everyone.)
Close the CEO tax loophole that allows corporations to take advantage of “performance pay” write-offs. (We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. Reducing it to the world average would create a lot of jobs. Corporations employ millions of taxpayers and pay for their health care. This is government greed.)
My thanks to Fan Yi, who bought Killing, and to Alex, who donated Phillip K. Dick's massive philosophical tome, Exegesis. He asked to swap it for one of my books. At first I refused and offered any of the others I had on display. I then caved and gave him A Hitch in Twilight, reasoning that I'd made enough selling other books to cover the cost and since there is a good chance he will read it. I sense he's a misfit genius, mentally ill or under the influence of drugs, perhaps all three. As for the book in question, here's a description from Amazon: "Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine." Decades ago I might have given it a shot. I suspect few outside the most dedicated fans of the author's sci-fi classics would be interested.
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