caryking said:
PackBacker07 said:
Yes, I know how the electors work. I also know that, by Pennsylvania state law, the legislature cannot send their own. But I'm sure you knew that as well?
Every race is not technically over until early January when the House confirms electoral votes. But, this one is over. Let's hope it works out better than the last four years.
I agree. This thing is done. Based on the your statement "Let's hope it works out better than the last four years". What exact policy's are you hoping goes better? I'm not talking personality's; rather policy's.
Tell us what you want to be different from a policy standpoint...
I don't think very much of anything will get done because we are likely to keep a Republican Senate and Mitch McConnell has vowed to block pretty much every piece of legislation that comes his way.
But in general, things i'm interested in that may have a chance but that is to be seen:
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Heavy investment in Green/renewable energy. In terms of research, in terms of job creation, in terms of lower our dependence on foreign energy sources.
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Rejoin Global Climate Accords - I'm not talking about the green new deal. Im talking about simply stating we are with the rest of the world and will work with everyone to make the world a cleaner place. I don't care if you believe global warming is real or if it's man made, making the world a cleaner place for the future generations is not a bad thing.
- Incentivize states to reduce incarceration levels including attempting to end for-profit prisons . States should be incentivized to look into arrest totals of non-violent offenders and be incentivized to release first time non-violent offenders for things like marijuana possession. Marijuana should also be decriminalized nationally but i don't think that will pass. For-profit prisons are a stain on our country. How we allow individuals to profit off of the incarceration of our citizens is beyond me.
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Relax Trump's isolationist views on foreign policy - I don't think the US should be involving itself in every entanglement around the world like we have sometimes in the past, but we are a world leader and in 2020 that means we are a leader that works with other nations in unison.
Immigration/Travel - End travel bans from majority muslim countries. take away the limits on the number of applications the US can review for people seeking asylum.
Education - Heavy investment in community colleges and other low tuition opportunities. Start a committee to look into the student loan debt crisis in this country. That is a bubble that is going to pop at some point and its not going to be pretty when it does. Tuition goes up as wages remain stagnant, that can't work long term.
Revise Trump Tax Cuts - The tax cuts were an overwhelming victory for large corporations and wealthy individuals who are now paying far less in tax than they did prior to 2016. It's a large reason why the debt is still rising under Trump. The law cut corporate taxes permanently but only cut it for (some) individuals temporarily until 2025 then they get raised again (they get raised by design exactly when trump thought he would be out of office. funny how that works). If you are a property owning individual in an already high tax state (think the NE or Cali) then your taxes went up under this plan as you can no longer file deductions for as much mortgage interest as well as the deduction for state/local tax paid was lowered.