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canoeist52

(2,282 posts)
Thu Mar 19, 2015, 11:23 AM Mar 2015

The People's Budget - A Raise for America... If Hillary Clinton backed this...

She'd be a shoo-in!

creating new jobs
increasing the minimum wage
reversing harmful cuts to safety net programs (and then bolstering those same supports)
implementing new tax brackets for those who earn more than $1 million annually
providing debt-free college to every student
enacting a price on carbon pollution and investing in renewable energy
allowing states to transition to single-payer health care systems
funding public financing of campaigns to curb special interest influence in politics.

Full 28-page pdf. file

http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/uploads/FINAL%20FY16%20Peoples%20Budget.pdf

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The People's Budget - A Raise for America... If Hillary Clinton backed this... (Original Post) canoeist52 Mar 2015 OP
I'd want a lot more then head nod..... daleanime Mar 2015 #1
The Q is whether she'd work to help pass it, and then sign it. RiverLover Mar 2015 #2
Yes, rhetoric is rhetoric is rhetoric, indeed. Been there, been schooled and fooled by that. djean111 Mar 2015 #3

RiverLover

(7,830 posts)
2. The Q is whether she'd work to help pass it, and then sign it.
Thu Mar 19, 2015, 11:34 AM
Mar 2015

Those bankers aren't giving her million$ for nothing.

And I think she has different plans for the military budget.

Rhetoric is rhetoric is rhetoric.

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