The broken US economy breeds inequality and insecurity. Here's how to fix it | James K Galbraith

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Stabilize energy prices and supplies - with regulation, quotas, price controls (as in Germany right now), long-term contracts and public utilities - and many other problems would become much easier to solve.
47% : These tools include:Social security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance and Snap already greatly reduce poverty, insecurity and hunger in America.
46% : If we can't get Medicare for All, then drop the age of eligibility to 55 - that would cover a large part of the most vulnerable population and reduce in a stroke the burden of private health insurance on employers.
45% : In the 1980s, taxes were shifted away from personal and corporate incomes and capital gains and toward payrolls and sales - and the unsurprising result was the rise of an oligarchy of hyper-wealthy persons.
44% : A great principle of classical economics was that taxes should encourage labor and enterprise while discouraging waste in both the public and private spheres.

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