Should $1.5 Trillion be put into debt, billionaires pockets or US

GOP trying to hide its reverse robinhood policy of giving to the rich and taking away from the poor, by seperating its current give-a-way to rich and while silencing its budget which seeks to cut medicaid, medicare and social safety nets by the same amount affecting seniors, children, severely ill, and the poor.

SIMPLY QUESTION to ask oneself: Should $1.5 Trillion be given Corporations, Billionaires, and super rich hoping they will invest some in US and some increating jobs, or should it be spent directly to people or programs that directly meet national needs and directly creates jobs?

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Below are a few ideas shared by a national publication to help understand there are alternatives:

"There are surely 1.5 trillion better things to spend $1.5 trillion on than expanding income inequality. Here are five:

1) Lift 3.2 million children out of poverty; make four-year public college tuition-free; and guarantee every worker 12 weeks of annual paid family and medical leave at 66 percent of their monthly wages.
According to the Century Foundation, you could give every American child under 6 an annual allowance of $2,500 — thereby lifting 3.2 million children out of poverty — for $17.7 billion a year (so, let’s say $277 billion over a decade, what with procreation). Bernie Sanders’s plan for making public colleges and universities tuition free has an estimated price tag of $80 billion or so (let’s say $900 billion over a decade, what with inflation), while his plan for expanding American workers’ family and medical leave benefits carries an estimated price tag of $320 billion over ten years. You do the math.

2) Give 4.4 million unemployed Americans a $15-an-hour public job.
In 2000, 79 percent of prime-age, non-college-educated Americans were employed. But opportunities for such workers have eroded over the past 17 years — and now, our economy would need to add 4.4 million of them to the job rolls just to get that demographic’s employment rate back to its turn-of-the-century level.
Fortunately, the Center for American Progress (CAP) has a plan to do just that. The liberal think tank has proposed “a permanent program of public employment and infrastructure investment — similar to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression but modernized for the 21st century.” As CAP notes, blue- and pink-collar Americans aren’t going without gainful employment because there’s no work to be done:

There are not nearly enough home care workers to aid the aged and disabled. Many working families with children under the age of 5 need access to affordable child care. Schools need teachers’ aides, and cities need EMTs … [S]ome individuals may be hired into paying public jobs in which their primary duty will be to complete intensive, full-time training for high-growth, in-demand occupations. These “public apprenticeships” could include rotations with public and private entities to gain on-the-ground experience and lead to guaranteed private-sector employment upon successful completion of training. ###/blockquoteoff-setting benefits to economic growth!

3) Double the Earned Income Tax Credit for working-class families with kids; quintuple it for childless workers. Democratic congressman Ro Khanna has introduced a bill that would double the EITC for low-income families with two kids, raising it to a maximum of $10,800. For childless low-income workers, Khanna’s bill would bring the EITC up from $510 to $3,000. In practice, this would mean that a two-child household earning $18,000 a year would see its after-tax income rise to over $28,000. Studies have found that giving a salary stipend to working families “produces substantially larger gains in children’s school achievement per dollar of expenditure than a year of preschool, participation in Head Start, or class size reduction in the early grades.” Khanna’s bill would cost $1.4 trillion over the next ten years.

4) Provide universal public day care to all who want it, and build a national high-speed rail system. According to the Economic Policy Institute, a program guaranteeing every American child access to a high-quality day care or prekindergarten would cost roughly $90 billion in its first year of operation. Costs would go down once the new child-care infrastructure was put together, but let’s say it would cost $900 billion to maintain for a decade. According to the libertarian Cato Institute, building a national high-speed rail system would cost $500 billion.

5) End homelessness in the United States; pass Trump’s original infrastructure plan; then give every single American about 90 bucks. The Department of Housing and Urban Development believes it could end homelessness with an additional $20 billion a year in funding. On the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed to spend $1 trillion on rebuilding America’s infrastructure, a proposal he likened to the public-works projects pursued during the New Deal. With the $300 billion left over after we end homelessness and make America great again, we could give every American about $90 bucks."

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