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1: Single-payer health care. Employer health care is a huge headache for any company that wants to scale. The costs are also too high for individuals and it dep
by rm_-rf_slash 10y ago
1: Single-payer health care. Employer health care is a huge headache for any company that wants to scale. The costs are also too high for individuals and it depresses the economy as a whole. This really should be a no-brainer.
2: Bring back the WPA. Dismantling it was one of the biggest stupid mistakes in American history. Just pay people to show up and work. It doesn't matter if a private contractor is more efficient or if the work can be done more effectively with expensive machines, just pay people to show up and work.
Here in Ithaca, NY, many of our beautiful gorge trails were built under the WPA. They have lasted for nearly 100 years, and aside from the occasional falling rock landslide, I bet they could last for 100 more.
I don't know about you, but I would be far more comfortable with the idea of starting companies if my backup plan included a state guarantee of work and health care. I may be a software developer but nobody is above picking up a shovel and doing honest work for honest pay.
- pnathan 10y agoI would like to see the WPA redone - we have a lot of infrastructure to work on - the American Civil Engineering Society gives the US a D+ grade on our infrastructure (http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/ http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/). Since it's a public benefit, having people in public service to do that would be pretty grand.