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The repeal of the ACA.
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That's a great idea! We pay more as a % of GDP for healthcare than any country in the world, and yet healthcare outcomes are comparable to countries like Cuba. Trash the system! Come back with another one that truly provides universal healthcare for all and injects real competition into the system. And lowers costs, a lot, and improves outcomes.
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Privatization of social security.
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Another great idea! Transition to something like Australia's superannuation retirement plans? Using funds provided by employers, people would actually receive a return on the proceeds in their retirement plans, instead of participating in a massive shell game / Ponzi scheme. Neither political party will go for it though. Trump hates the idea.
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Trickle down tax policies.
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Not sure what you're getting at. Trickle down? We have the most progressive tax system in the developed world. But if you mean flatten rates and eliminate loopholes and special privileges, I'm all for it. In 2017, Trump/McConnell/Ryan and other Republicans made individual tax rates more progressive while providing special breaks to small businessmen, and to big businessmen who employ lots of people and have lots of depreciable property. I wouldn't mind seeing those measures undone. On the other hand, changes in corporate taxation were largely positive.
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The criminalization of abortion and birth control.
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You WERE on a roll TxDot. Those are terrible ideas! Unamerican IMHO. You don't go putting people in jail for getting birth control or an abortion. Trump I believe favors a woman's right to choose to 15 weeks, as well as birth control. We can surmise the later because he doesn't appear to have any little bastards running around. And probably learned his lesson after Marla Maples got pregnant.
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Not to mention the resumption of Catholicism in our schools, hospitals and public institutions.
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Hospitals and public institutions infiltrated by Catholics? Could you please explain? As to private schools, I don't care if kids study devil worship, as long as they get good educations.
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We have much to fear from the delusions of minority based religious and conservative policies
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I'm a lot more afraid of the anti-liberals (as in anti-neoliberals and anti-economic liberals) than I am of religious and conservative minorities. This is America. Minorities have the right not to be persecuted by the majority. That said, the tail shouldn't wag the dog on issues like abortion.