I used to think that too, but it doesn’t work that way. Medicaid is given through block grants, and states can withhold the money and services from the people for whom it’s intended. Incredibly, many do. Universal healthcare would not be “managed” by the government. It would be government funded, but not government run.

A Democrat will win in 2024 by telling the forces of economic royalism to get the hell out.

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On such a level. Unless we do something about it...

An Economic Bill of Rights will be the core of economic reform and the beginning of a season of repair. The way we’ll win in 2024 is by offering the American people a Better Deal.

POTUS absolutely should debate us.

American democracy has already been tanked, and by the very people you seem to think are so “qualified.” (Are you under the impression that things are going well?) I’ve reformed a lot, by the way: I’ve helped reform people’s lives. That’s why I’m so clear about what’s really going on in this country, have the audacity to say so, and the insight to lead us into a season of repair.

Our actual experience as a country proves that higher taxation of the wealthy does *not* limit productivity and prosperity. We had a vibrant middle class during the years when we *did* have higher taxes on the rich. Lower taxation of the very wealthy has led to a class of hoarders, the destruction of our middle class, a war on the poor and a society riddled with economic despair. *That* has been the wealth distribution. America will begin to repair itself when there is a mass realization that what we’re doing now is not working. There is nothing to fear in changing course. There is everything to fear, however, in seeking to remain in an unsustainable state. No nation in history has ever survived the level of inequality we are tolerating now. We will either make things very much better, or they are going to get very much worse. It’s time for a #newbeginning.

Nobody’s talking about *more”*spending. We’re talking about *different* spending. On what grounds is it “sound” to give more to somebody who already has a lot, by depriving those who have too little?

Sometimes before you can begin to change your life - or in this case, your country - you have to be willing to look in the mirror and face some tough and often painful truths. The truth is, Americans have been played. In the name of sound economics, we’ve been on a 50 yr systemic slide away from “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people” - destroying America’s middle class to the point where one percent of our people have more wealth than the bottom 90%. We can’t have that, and retain our democracy. We are essentially being ruled by a matrix of corporate overlords. The system that has been doing this - leeching off millions of people to serve the insatiable monster of corporate greed - will not disrupt itself; there’s far too much money to be made by those who run it. The only way to override it is for the people themselves to wake up and say “No more.” And to mean it.