New Yorker interview with Pete Buttigieg.

[crazytown]

1st Item of Presidency - Democratic/voting reform
2nd - Cimate change.
Taxation Policy - Repeal Trump Tax Cuts (for the wealthy)
Wealth tax, Financial transaction tax, income tax scales to be more progressive

https://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/thenewyorker/?share=1#file=/audio/json/926568/

But what would be your specific policy suggestion on reparations, an idea that was popularized by Ta-Nehisi Coates not long ago, and now we’re hearing this as a campaign discussion quite a lot, maybe to the surprise of many people, but not a lot of specifics about it—same with the Green New Deal. There are principles being, an energy being thrust into the debate, which is fantastic, but a lot of specifics seem to be missing. So start with reparations.

Well, I think that that’s partly because nobody has it fully figured out. But we do, I think, increasingly have a consensus that it deserves to be looked at and taken seriously. It’s one of the reasons why there’s a lot of traction for a proposal to set up a commission that would try to have a mature conversation about what this means. One way to look at it—and this is a framework, not a fully articulated plan—but what I would want to do would be to look at every inequity in our society that we know is at least partly the result of intentional, harmful race-based policy.

You don’t have to look that far. For example, there’s a really important book that came out, I think last year, called “The Color of Law.” It explains how a lot of the racial segregation taking place in our neighborhoods that we maybe treat today as de facto actually happened as the result of very specific and very racist policy choices, going back at least to the F.D.R. Administration. You would think it would make sense if resources went into creating that racial inequity that resources would go into reversing it.Perhaps targeting housing aid in certain ways, by neighborhood, perhaps, making sure that grant funding available to schools is allocated in a way that takes into account which school districts are in areas that were deliberately harmed by intentional, race-based racist policy, or maybe other dimensions that haven’t really been fully analyzed or mapped out.

But the point is we need to begin to build the capacity to do this, and, when we do it right, we can also get out of the current framework that the issue is being talked about, the very reason why, you know, the right, I think, in a cynical way, is kind of salivating for this to be more of a campaign issue, which is everybody thinking of it as a check in the mail, which makes it very hard to come up with a fair explanation for who’s supposed to get the check and who it’s supposed to come out of.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/pete-buttigieg-plans-win-democratic-presidential-nomination-defeat-trump

[marylandblue]

1. Well, there is one advantage of him being a mayor.

The sort of problems and solutions for racial segregation he is talking about takes place at the local government level(even when it's federal money) and it is not something that a Governor or Senator would have much experience with.