Sanders detailed a 12-point economic program to, - Invest in our crumbling infrastructure with a major program to create jobs by rebuilding roads, bridges, water systems, waste water plants, airports, railroads and schools. – Transform energy systems away from fossil fuels to create jobs while beginning to reverse global warming and make the planet habitable for future generations. – Develop new economic models to support workers in the United States instead of giving tax breaks to corporations which ship jobs to low-wage countries overseas. – Make it easier for workers to join unions and bargain for higher wages and benefits. – Raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour so no one who works 40 hours a week will live in poverty. – Provide equal pay for women workers who now make 78 percent of what male counterparts make. – Reform trade policies that have shuttered more than 60,000 factories and cost more than 4.9 million decent-paying manufacturing jobs. – Make college affordable and provide affordable child care to restore America’s competitive edge compared to other nations. – Break up big banks. The six largest banks now have assets equivalent to 61 percent of our gross domestic product, over $9.8 trillion. They underwrite more than half the mortgages in the country and issue more than two-thirds of all credit cards. – Join the rest of the industrialized world with a Medicare-for-all health care system that provides better care at less cost. – Expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs. – Reform the tax code based on wage earners’ ability to pay and eliminate loopholes that let profitable corporations stash profits overseas and pay no U.S. federal income taxes.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 08:35:13 +0000