how we could win [was Re: [lbo-talk] how Hillary could win]

[George Scialabba]

Well, not just *any* laundry list. Suppose they campaigned really hard for 
universal single-payer health care, retention and extension of the estate 
tax, increased capital gains tax, 50 percent reduction of the defense 
budget, stiff gasoline tax, large research budget for alternative fuels, 
universal free preschool, 3 percent of national income for overseas 
development assistance, no tests of nuclear weapons and gradual reduction 
of the stockpile plus no-first-use pledge, 30 percent increase in the 
minimum wage to be funded by a 1 percent surtax on incomes over $1m/yr, 
renunciation of our Security Council veto, increased and timely payment of 
UN dues, constitutional amendment stripping corporations of status as legal 
persons, extension and enforcement of the Freedom of Information Act, 
greatly increased citizen oversight of EPA and FDA, etc, etc, etc. [Add 
your own laundry items.] Wouldn't that be progress?

At 12:56 PM 7/19/2006, you wrote:
>George Scialabba:
>
>I'd settle for a laundry list, if they were only accomplished.
>
>
>[WS:] The Democrats have been doing just that for the past 50 or so years 
>and look where they got.  If they continue, they will soon be wiped out 
>altogether.
>
>Wojtek
>
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