2024 US Presidential Election

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BFR said:

zorg1000 said:

Focus on these 5 major areas: childcare, elder care, healthcare, education & housing. If people can afford these things then the increased price of consumer products & services isn’t nearly as big of an issue. Propose a major Act that includes:

$200bn-universal Pre-K for 3 & 4 year olds

$250bn-tuition free community college & increased Pell Grants

$200bn-subsidized daycare and training for daycare providers

$50bn-expand summer EBT & free school meals

$200bn-12 weeks paid family and medical leave

$400bn-expand access to long term, home and community based care for elderly & disabled

$200bn-extend increased Affordable Care Act subsidies (set to expire at end of 2025) 

$250bn-build and rehabilitate ~2 million homes and improve public housing

$100bn-build and upgrade public schools, daycare facilities & community colleges

$650bn-expand Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Tax Credit & Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit

Thank you Zorg, for leading to the bankruptcy of the USA.  God help us all.

To put the costs into perspective: 

Trump's tax cuts (primarily for the wealthy) cost the country somewhere in the ballpark of $2tril. Extending those tax cuts could cost upward of $4tril over the next decade. Adding the additional tax cuts he has proposed would bring that up to around $7tril.

Zorg just proposed about $2tril in spending and about $0.65tril in tax cuts.