… she has a corporate subsidy problem.
I’ll demonstrate:
1) Phase out all agricultural subsidies, starting with agri-business and their vendors and cutting benefits to family farms over time.
2) Change the Grand Strategy of the United States from global power projection to core defense. End deployments in the global gap. Phase out deployments in Central Europe and East Asia. Cut weapons programs sharply to meet the new strategic doctrine. Give Japan the choice to pay for naval and air forces in northern Japan. Work out a bilateral deal with the Republic of Korea. Both deals will require Status Of Forces Agreements that put American forces under local law. Get over it. The Koreans and Japanese are not the Taliban. Apply half the DoD savings to a crash program to get America off oil, say building a network of low-cost electric vehicle charging stations and a hydrogen distribution network. Make bilateral and multi-lateral deals to phase out nuclear weapons and get tougher on proliferation.
3) Replace the Health Care Bill with a single-payer bill, say 2009’s HR 676, which would cover all procedures for everyone and fund itself with a 7% income tax surcharge and a 2% employer surcharge.
4) Let the cap on Social Security contributions float up by CPI + 1% for twenty years.
5) Fix the Consumer Price Index and Unemployment calculations to restore accuracy.
Run that by any working economist and have her crunch the numbers. The 60-year fiscal tsunami we face will turn into a tame little breaker that laps around our ankles. Medicare would no longer face a wave of sick seniors who have been saving their diseases until they qualify. Phasing out agricultural subsidies would end artificially cheap corn sugars and soy oils that are linked to obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Long-term budget crisis solved.
Who would scream?
Corporate interests and their employees! Not to mention the “grassroots” opposition stirred up by their TV ads.
Who would benefit? The other 98 percent of the American people.
Watch and see which one gets their way.
