It is a broken Christianity that says “God protected him!” when a president survives and “thoughts and prayers” when school kids die.
A god who only protects the powerful and not the vulnerable is an idol.
Buttigieg: Yeah, but in every case, it’s window dressing. The “Trump Rx” thing — which, as I understand it, largely takes credit for an existing coupon program — doesn’t balance out the fact that Republicans are making so many Americans pay more in health care premiums.
The tax-on-tips proposal — which I think is great, to make tips tax-free — still doesn’t outweigh the fact that so many Americans are bearing the cost of massive tax cuts for billionaires and corporations. That’s the main focus of his tax policy.
On housing, I’m also skeptical of large firms going in and buying up homes. But for the other 99% of houses that aren’t owned by those firms, we need to hear a clearer plan. One of the things making mortgages harder to afford right now is interest rates. And interest rates are pushed up by the enormous deficits created by the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
So in every case, he’s offering a small droplet of something — sometimes I might even agree with it — but that droplet goes into a bucket of policies that have actively made the problem worse.