1. Let the Bush tax cuts expire like they should have done already.
2. Cap and trade for carbon emissions with auctioned permits. Recycle about 2/3 of the revenue back to help low-income people deal with cost increases, and to fund transition technologies. Put the other 1/3 of revenue into the general fund.
3. Single-payer health care
4. Don’t start any NEW wars, and seriously limit our involvement in our current (4) wars. Also, massive cuts to military spending.
Unfortunately, this idea doesn’t involve screwing over poor people, or giving big new tax cuts to rich people, so there’s no chance it will be called “courageous.”
I thought cap and trade was what we proposed because a straight-up carbon tax would piss people off.
Is there another advantage of which I am unaware?