WendyDarling wrote:Gloominary wrote:WendyDarling wrote:Can you offer a few left ideas that aren’t off the deep end? Then I’ll mull it over.
My ideas are for the federal government.
Increase the federal minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour.
Free, or affordable healthcare, but without taking away the private option.
Free, or affordable postsecondary education, again without taking away the private option.
Legalize marijuana.
I think those are the best ideas the left has.
Oh, thought of one, college debt is paid with social security but they lose that portion of social security until their college debts are paid.
More low income duplexes in more small towns, not big complexes though. A few duplexes that are woven into each town seamlessly not causing ghetto areas.
Interesting, so affordable housing and some college debt relief.
Can you think of a few areas you'd like the right to have more say in?
Term limits for all elected and appointed government offices. Pledge of Allegiance as originally written in schools through elementary levels.
Interesting, so you're willing to make a few economic concessions in order to get term limits and the Pledge of Allegiance back in school, the latter being a cultural victory for conservatives.
I'll give them a bit more dominion over the economy if they give us a bit more dominion over culture.
I suspect you're not the only one who feels that way to say the least.
I thought that the new federally mandated min. wage was already happening incrementally up to the $15, wasn’t it?
I'm not sure.
In Canada the federal minimum wage is 11.06 dollars, not sure if it's scheduled to go up either.
Most, or all of the provinces are scheduled to go up to 15 dollars incrementally.
Here in BC it's currently 14.60.
Not convinced that this will improve much by way of the quality of life if only large corporations can afford to pay it or small businesses cut their staff in half and their worked hours simply making fulltime work harder to come by forcing their emplyees to live on 25 hours a week which is exactly the amount of money they earned before so no financial advantage only less hours worked.
Yea, I hear you, I would subsidize small businesses to compensate them for having to pay higher wages.
Still, if it were not for covid, most small businesses would survive and most wouldn't be able or willing to slash their staff in half.
Unlimited free higher education, maybe extend this free education to tutors as well but that might put the institutions out of business, cutting govt workers, making govt smaller. I’d rather learn from individualized tutors specifically chosen to jibe with my interests, rather than being forced through certain curriculums for one specific outcome. Tutors are the way to go. Not sure how the financing would be organized by the govt. Tutoring would create a lot of jobs learning hands on one on one and I think a student would learn more, quicker too. Be much easier to find a tutor you gel with who is challenging you rather than being stuck in a required lame class with a lame teacher.
Ah, so you're willing to make a much larger concession on education.