Liberals Rock! CPC Budget Proposal is AWESOME. "Its About JOBS!"

[RiverLover]

The People's Budget: A Raise For America

8.4 million good paying jobs by 2018

$1.9 trillion investment in America’s future

$820 billion infrastructure and transportation improvements

The People's Budget fixes an economy that, for too long, has failed to provide the opportunities American families need to get ahead. Despite their skills and work ethic, most American workers and families are so financially strapped from increasing income inequality that their paychecks barely cover basic necessities. They earn less and less as corporations and the wealthy continue amassing record profits. It has become clear to American workers that the system is rigged.

The People’s Budget levels the playing field and creates economic opportunity by increasing the pay of middle- and low-income Americans. More customers and higher consumer spending advance American businesses, not tax cuts and relaxed regulations. The People’s Budget drives a full economic recovery by creating high-quality jobs and reducing family expenses, restoring the buying power of working Americans.

The People’s Budget closes tax loopholes that companies use to ship jobs overseas. It creates fair tax rates for millionaires and provides needed relief to low- and middle-income families. It invests in debt-free college, workforce training and small businesses within our communities, helping return our economy to full employment and giving a raise to Americans who need it most. Investments in The People’s Budget boost employment and wages by addressing some of the biggest challenges of our time: repairing America’s rapidly aging roads and bridges, upgrading our energy systems to address climate change, keeping our communities safe, and preparing our young people to thrive as citizens and workers.

A fair wage is more than the size of a paycheck. It’s having enough hours, paid overtime, sick and parental leave, and affordable health and childcare. It’s being able to afford a good education for your kids and never living in fear that your job will be sent overseas. It’s knowing you can make ends meet at the end of the month. The People’s Budget helps achieve that with a raise for American workers, a raise for struggling families and a boost to America’s long-term global competitiveness.



A RAISE FOR AMERICA

· Creates more than 8 million good jobs by 2018.

· Increases functionality of Worker Protection Agencies.

· Includes a four percent raise for federal workers.

· Provides Paid Leave Initiative and Child Care.

· Supports a minimum wage increase and Collective Bargaining.



AUSTERITY TO PROSPERITY

· Repeals sequester and all Budget Control Act spending caps.

· Increases discretionary funding to invest in working families.

· Reverses harmful cuts and enhances social safety net.

· Invests in veterans, women, communities of color and their families.



FAIR INDIVIDUAL TAXES

· Equalizes tax rates for investment income and income from work.

· Returns to Clinton-era tax rates for households making over $250,000 and implements

· new brackets for those making over $1 million.

· Expands the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Care Credit.



FAIR CORPORATE TAXES

· Eliminates the ability of U.S. corporations to defer taxes on offshore profits.

· Ends corporate inversions that allow U.S. companies to merge offshore to avoid taxes.

· Enacts a Financial Transaction Tax on various financial market transactions.

· Ends unlimited executive pay tax write-offs.



EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR EVERY STUDENT

· Provides debt-free college to every student.

· Allows refinancing of student loans.

· Invests in K-12 and provides free pre-school.



AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE

· Repeals excise tax on high-priced workers plans and replaces with public option.

· Implements drug price negotiation for Medicare.

· Reauthorizes Children’s Health Insurance Program.

· Allows states to transition to single-payer health care systems.



PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT

· Closes tax loopholes and ends subsidies provided to oil, gas and coal companies.

· Enacts a price on carbon pollution without hurting low-income families.

· Invests in clean and renewable energy and green manufacturing.



SUSTAINABLE DEFENSE

· Modernizes our defense posture to create sustainable baseline defense spending.

· Ends emergency funding for Overseas Contingency Operations.

· Increases funding for diplomacy and invests in job transition programs.



COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM

· Implements comprehensive immigration reform, including a pathway to citizenship.



ACCESS TO HOUSING

· Fully funds programs to make housing affordable and accessible for all Americans.



PUBLIC FINANCING OF CAMPAIGNS

· Funds public financing of campaigns to curb special interest influence in politics.

Full Budget documents are below.

http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/the-peoples-budget-a-raise-for-america/

Those crazy Liberals!

This may be more of a pipe dream atm, but I believe if we had more Democrats proudly campaign & govern based on this^, not only would the Democratic Party flourish, but so would our country!

From yesterday~

[mariawr]

1. A budget for the people...bet it gets crickets from the media. Talk it up folks, nt.

[RiverLover]

2. We DO need to talk it up. Share the video, its so inspiring.

I love our House Dems, the main street Dems.

They are why we vote "D"!

[ctsnowman]

14. Exactly!

Last I checked they outnumbered the Tea party but don't hold your breath waiting for them to get the same coverage.

[Scuba]

32. It'll get crickets from our twice-elected Democratic President too. In six years, zero mentions ...

... of the Progressive Caucus Budget from a President some here call mistakenly call a progressive.

[RiverLover]

35. +1

with great sadness.

[stillwaiting]

3. I will look forward to how this is scored in regards to our debt/deficit.

I remember when the Progressive Caucus budget was scored the best at reducing the deficit amongst all proposed budgets while also doing the most for average Americans, and the media refused to spread that bit of good news to Americans (corporate media, that is).

It's amazing what can be accomplished for average Americans while ALSO reducing the deficit if our budgets don't completely cater to the financial elite and their multinational corporations.

[blackspade]

4. That's awesome.

That should be the Democratic Party platform, well a huge part of it anyway.

[RiverLover]

11. They joke in the video that they're the "Democratic Wing" of the Democratic Party.

Seriously, that needs to change. Democrats need to be Democrats, damnit.

[jwirr]

24. That is what I was thinking.

[Roland99]

5. A dream budget

but the GOP will paint it as gifts to a bunch of freeloaders and the "liberal media" will carry that water for them all the way to the offshore bank!

[TBF]

6. If you'd put the Warren Sig Line

at the top of this OP it would be just about perfect.

[RiverLover]

10. Indeed!

Wish she were running for President of the US. When she talks, the people & more importantly the media, listen!

How Elizabeth Warren Turns Boilerplate Viral
March 5, 2015
http://time.com/3732251/elizabeth-warren-viral-videos/

[TBF]

20. I could also see her championing that proposed budget -

and she would mean it.

[RiverLover]

21. Definitely. They give her props in the video, too.

This has Liz Warren written all over it.

[1StrongBlackMan]

7. posted to for a more detailed reading; but ...

the bullet points look good.

[Fred Sanders]

12. And there are no asteriks and "fill in the blanks" of the childish GOP "budget".

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. well, who around here has Social Media messaging savvy?

Since that seems to be the only hope of getting the information out there where people can see it......

Seriously, who all here has the skills?
I do not, just have a desire to DO something about the lack of a coordinated voice.

Couldn't we start a group with some publicity goals and get the info going viral?
People can't demand attention to this if they don't know.

[RiverLover]

9. Great point. Great Q. Anybody?

I sure don't have that social media savvy.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. well, you wanna help kick an OP?

I can write one (later, I'm out right now), and you can help keep it kicked.

[jwirr]

25. Excellent idea. I cannot help in this are as I have trouble even getting something from here to

Facebook.

[abelenkpe]

13. K&R

This is what all democrats should be promoting.

[ctsnowman]

15. K & R

[Snarkoleptic]

16. The very serious people will soon be out in force to dismiss the budget as folly.

*That is if it gets any media attention at all.

[RiverLover]

18. *

Yep. That's our "liberal media bias" ignoring or belittling all things Liberal.

[gratuitous]

34. The media excuse: "It has no chance of passing"

Hey look! The House passed another bill to repeal Obamacare! Let's spend a three minute segment on this important, serious legislation.

[PatrickforO]

17. Ah. This is what we actually SHOULD be doing.

Too bad the GOP, which seems to hate everything that actually benefits the American people, will shoot it down.

[pampango]

19. While the republican budget is all about emasculating government, Medicare, Medicaid and safety net.

The difference could not be clearer.

[riobravo]

23. K & R!

[grahamhgreen]

26. Kick

[RiverLover]

27. Action NEEDED - Please Sign & Co-sponsor "The People's Budget"

Sign the petition: Be a citizen co-sponsor of the People’s Budget



Americans consistently say jobs, the economy, education and Social Security when asked about their top priorities. The People's Budget heeds these calls by making investments that will create 8 million good jobs, give a raise to working families and support critical services we all depend on. This budget reflects the priorities of the American people.

At a time of extreme inequality and limited opportunities, this budget makes sure that the rich and corporations pay their fair share of taxes, while making investments vital to our future—in Pre-K and debt-free college, in infrastructure, in renewable energy and more.

Separate from the federal budget, the People’s Budget endorses the expansion of Social Security benefits by requiring the very wealthiest Americans to pay into Social Security at the same rates as everyone else. Expanded Social Security offers a solution to a looming retirement crisis more and more seniors face.

The People's Budget includes numerous provisions to address the persistent racially based inequality our country faces and, if implemented, would provide stronger paths to equity for communities of color.

Become a citizen co-sponsor of the People’s Budget and we will deliver your signatures to Congress in support of a plan that puts working families first.

Our message to the Members of Congress:

I support the People’s Budget to get America back on track and on the path to prosperity.

I stand as a citizen co-sponsor because the People’s Budget will:

Help create an economy that works for all of us. The budget creates 8 million good jobs by 2018; expands childcare to low-income families with children younger than three; increases the minimum wage and protects the right to bargain collectively.

Set the country on the path to prosperity. The budget increases funding to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, makes college affordable for working families, invests in clean and renewable energy and green manufacturing, and enhances the social safety net that protects veterans, women, and working families.

Make corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes. The budget pays for these new investments by ending tax breaks for companies that ship jobs and profits offshore and restoring the tax on the wealthiest to the Clinton-era rates. It expands tax credits for working families, and eliminates the lower tax rate paid by millionaires on investment incomes.

Endorse Social Security expansion. Social Security is a solution to a looming retirement income crisis, the disappearing middle class, and growing income inequality. While improvements to the program should be made separately from the federal budget process, we can extend the lifespan of the trust fund and increase Social Security benefits for all by asking the very wealthiest Americans to pay into Social Security at the same rate as everyone else.

The People’s Budget is right for my family and right for working families across America. I urge you to support it today.

Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
American Family Voices
Campaign for America's Future
ColorOfChange.org
Courage Campaign
Daily Kos
National People's Action
National Priorities Project
RH Reality Check
Social Security Works
Watchdog.net/Demand Progress

Sign Petition Here

[bluelagoon]

28. This is a thing of beauty.

[liberal_at_heart]

29. Now those are real progressives. Hell yeah!

[delrem]

30. It makes sense to me.

It doesn't seem over-reaching, so much as seeming like a reorientation.
I think it might be sold better as a reorientation than as a bunch of promises.
"promises" can be spun, by the right, as "taking".
"reorientation" focuses on levelling the playing field - where there isn't any one privileged class, there isn't any one taboo, untouchable, homeless class. The class distinctions vanish.

At any rate, that's how I grasped the sentence "... by increasing the pay of middle- and low-income Americans."
At first I thought, yes, gov't can enforce a legal minimum wage, but how can it enforce an increase in pay for middle-class Americans? Well, gov't can't and it's really a different thing than just stipulating a legal minimum. What a gov't can do is orient itself toward maximizing worker benefits, creating conditions where worker benefits are maximized, where worker protections are maximized, where the least advantaged are given tools that increase their leverage, ...

[lovemydog]

31. Big K & R

Always vote for members of the progressive caucus!

[muriel_volestrangler]

33. Back to the first page of GD - because so many of the proposals are important

and it would do the USA so much good for these to be what gets debated. It's not enough to be "not a crazy Republican"; parties need a plan for the future, like this. Good to see action on CO2 in there.

[RiverLover]

36. Thanks for the kick m_v!

Yes, even to debate them would be good.

Let the public see the possibilities, and the common sense & decency within.