Instead of ending Medicare as we know it and making savage cuts to community health centers and children's health care programs, we must ask the top 2 percent of income earners, who currently pay the lowest upper-income tax rate on record, to start paying their fair share of taxes. Instead of making it harder for working families to send their kids to college, we must end the foreign tax shelters that enable the wealthy and large corporations to avoid paying tens of billions in U.S. taxes. Instead of making major cuts in job creating programs in infrastructure, public transportation , we must do away with a wide variety of loopholes that allow Wall Street executives, whose profits and compensation packages are soaring, to have a lower tax rate than middle class workers. There are real solutions to our problems but all of or political leaders lack the guts to put forward any real reform.
Did any of you know that Medicare is not allowed to use its tremendous bargaining power to purchase drugs at a discount. This program can be fixed and Americans will suffer at the hands of their elected leaders who either refuse to try or are just too corrupt or are just plain stupid that they stand impotant to our plight.
As a second generation American ,that served his country,I find it very hard to be proud of the direction we are headed.
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