Comment on In today's term what is the middle class in the US? If the government wanted to help the middle class and poor how would they go about it? Beside the toss money at the problem solution?

NaClKnight@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

You could, for instance,

Expand the same home buying program that the military members enjoy to the entire populace.

Provide meaningful and useful pathways to avoid and/or discharge medical debt, including tighter regulation of insurance companies and cheaper more competitive government sponsored healthcare options not tied to employment

Subsidized childcare (which is currently very expensive in part because of the insurance they’re required to carry)

Relax/increase income limits on programs that support low income or disabled people

Revitalize/reintroduce the oernment owned/provided tax preparation service to reduce cost of filling for average filers

Heavily tax company purchases of residential properties

Return to 1970s, 1980s, or even 1990s levels of college funding and reduce tuition costs at public universities

Reintroduce/increase student loan discharge or payback options

Relax restrictions on financial aid use to attend graduate level degree programs

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