Walmart and Amazon took home $29.7 billion in profits last year. Call me a radical lefty, but we should tax the corporations profited during the pandemic and use the revenue to bailout the American people.
The "radical idea" of universal health care is a reality in:
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Chile
Czech Rep.
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
S. Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switz.
Turkey
U.K.
Medicare for All is not a radical idea, but let me tell you what is. A cruel system that causes 92 million Americans to be uninsured or under-insured during a pandemic, while the health care industry made $54.6 billion in profits during the last quarter alone. That's radical.
Make no mistake about it. This is a blatant attempt by Trump's handpicked Postmaster General (and campaign contributor) to sabotage the Postal Service, suppress the vote and undermine democracy. The Postmaster General should either resign or be removed from office — immediately.
Today, with @SenMarkey and @SenGillibrand, I am introducing a 60% tax on the obscene wealth gains of 467 billionaires during this pandemic in order to guarantee healthcare as a right to all for an entire year. #MakeBillionairesPay https://t.co/6BxIHVTYvF
Since the start of the pandemic:
— Jeff Bezos' wealth has grown by $73,000,000,000
— Mark Zuckerberg's wealth has grown by $31,000,000,000
— 30,000,000 Americans are unemployed
— 29,000,000 Americans are at risk of eviction
Break up Big Tech. Tax the rich.
The next time you hear the GOP getting hysterical about voter fraud threatening our elections remember that polling places in Kentucky have been cut by 95%.
Instead of spending $80 billion a year on jails and incarceration, we need to be investing in more jobs and education. One thing is abundantly clear: Every police department violating people's civil rights must be stripped of federal funding. Period.