• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    Over a decade ago, Obama proposed significantly expanding AmeriCorps, the tea party Republicans basically did everything they could to water down the expansion to amount to basically nothing.

    I wonder if Twitter Republicans even know AmeriCorps exists…

    Anyway, what we should actually do is mandate that everyone who earns double area median income for 3 years in a 5 year period has to spend 6 months working in a call center, retail, customer service, fast food.

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      10 months ago

      Stop demonizing your neighbor. Demonize the 1%.

      That income range still very much encompasses “normal” people who already pay a large share of income taxes.

      Tax the super rich (both income and wealth), and redistribute that money via healthcare, education and social programs like UBI.