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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf the 'pugs still want to "negotiate" in February...I say we negotiate THIS stuff
In exchange for getting rid of the "individual mandate" and the "employer mandate", they let us have the public option(OR let us switch the whole thing to single-payer)
In exchange for raising the debt ceiling again, they let the Bush tax cuts for the rich die, they help repeal Taft-Hartley and they let us pass a NEW McCain-Feingold, a NEW Glass-Steagall, and send a constitutional amendment to the states abolishing the Electoral College.
THAT kind of negotiations, I can live with.
You folks in, too?
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)The general idea is to ask for way more than you really want, and let the company bargain you down.
stage left
(2,966 posts)And a repeal of Citizens United, maybe term limits like the Presidential one, so Politician is not a lifetime career, expansion of Social Security, a repeal of the Patriot Act(The Patriot Act...repeal it is the one bumper sticker on my car), removal of the cap on social security, cuts to the defense budget, and Paul Ryan off any committee planning a budget. For a start.
They_Live
(3,240 posts)no XL pipeline. raise the minimum wage to $30 hr. end Taxpayer funded subsidies to Oil and energy companies. Outlaw fracking everywhere.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)We're negotiable on the Biolivarian socialism
ReRe
(10,597 posts)Good for starters, anyway.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Leave Medicare and SS alone
Sirveri
(4,517 posts)I'm talk a dollar per dollar transfer. Defense spending provides domestic jobs, the key point is to continue the spending but to direct it towards better uses.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Job thieves never pay a cent of tax to the U.S., but they want to sell their crap here.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)A lot.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)"You have to ask for it."
annabanana
(52,791 posts)away the store before we start talking.