I have been canvassing for Elizabeth Warren in Illinois.

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And in spite of the minimal coverage that the US media gives to her, and her campaign, people I am speaking with like her and her plans.

She is quite progressive, and her legislative history is impressive, especially, in my view, the Consumer Financial Protection Board, or CFPB, which Warren proposed.

And when canvassing, concerns about improving healthcare are always mentioned. Every person raises that issue when asked about what issues concern them.

Warren’s Medicare for All plan has some interesting financing methods. Since it is expensive, it requires an increase in taxes. But it’s a progressive increase, undoing some of the bennies the ultra-rich got from previous Republican tax cuts. And more interestingly, it restructures some taxes in ways that seem targeted right at the financial sector, and at the rentiers who have taken far too much out of the economy without actually producing anything. It’s radical, but in a way pro-capitalist, because it encourages capital to be spent productively, rather than on financial tricks.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/3/1896986/-The-financial-goodies-in-the-Warren-MFA-plan-no-wonder-the-01-is-freaking-out