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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with you.  It bothers me because the talk around universal preK is really a push to not tackle the real issue: most families cannot afford to live without two working parents.  I wish they'd tackle housing costs, college costs, wages, etc. that would allow people to make the best decision for their family, whether that's working or staying home.[/quote]

unless you want to live in a command economy, most of those things aren't fixable. Providing supports like universal prek is achievable [/quote]

I disagree. College costs rising are directly tied with government-backed educational loans. That is a problem of our own making. We could limit foreign investment on housing. We could raise taxes on non-primary homes and air bnb situations that lower supply. There are options to fix these problems. [/quote]

do you really think air bnb and Chinese investment properties matter more than at the edges? If I want to to buy an 850k home in Springfield, how much of the price that I will pay is a result of non-primary homes? Do you want to pull government backed education loans and leave middle class families without any ability to send their kids to school? Those loans are the only thing enabling large swaths of kids to attend college in the first place. I notice you didn't mention wages, because [b]we're coming up on 50 years of wage stagnation relative to inflation, but no one even pretends to have an answer to that one at this point even though it's at the root of all of these issues[/b] [/quote]
DP here. And the truth is that this one is very easy to solve, but politically untenable. Individual wealth like the kind controlled by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates shouldn't exist. Perhaps more importantly, the overall wealth disparity between the type of people on DCUM (UMC/rich people like me) and the average American shouldn't exist, though I think this disparity is more of a secondary effect. The primary issue is that large corporations and their shareholders are allowed to hoard the profits generated off of the labor of American workers, who aren't benefitting from their increased productivity. These corporations have so many tax loopholes available to them that on paper they pay no taxes. This is the real issue, and it could be resolved by simplifying the tax code, enacting a much higher minimum-wage, and better regulating compensation packages to the executives of publicly-funded companies. The one thing that is somewhat politically viable is to increase taxes on UMC/rich professionals. I'm pretty ambivalent on the value of doing that, but I don't think it solves the real problem...which is that our approach to capitalism is very sick right now.[/quote]

well said.[/quote]

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