I understand that everyone has been having a shit time of this. I had to sell my own home to make sure my own parents weren't homeless as they were literally going to " lose the farm". So essentially everything I have worked my entire life for and saved for is already gone as well and I now have nothing to show for it either. No more savings. I exhausted that before I gave up and sold my own home but I didn't even get to keep the money for it as it was already spent, so no home and left empty handed so I could save my own family. I had to take in 2 of my sisters and their kids during this, One of my brother's IS homeless right now, My other brother who lost his ability to use his right thumb will be losing his home in the next month or so if congress doesn't pass this relief bill NOW. My other brother and his wife lost their home and moved back in with my mom. My father died. My middle brother was in an accident and has metal rods in his legs. My little sister was hit by a drunk driver and had her face put back on and I am the one in my family that everyone expects to be able to help.. I actually DO understand what is at stake here, that is WHY I am paying close attention to what is IN everything being done here and not just ignoring it. None of what Biden is proposing here is for the privileged FYI. Just read it.
1) If you cannot afford Healthcare under the ACA, would you not then be able to afford it under Biden's plan once the subsidies are increased to cover higher incomes and your family receives the tax credits coming in other areas? I have family members who can't afford insurance either, but they defer their monthly payments to their taxes and then they qualify to not have to pay them at all due to their income and the subsidies cover them entirely. With him raising the limits on this, it should allow a lot more people to qualify. The Public option is ALSO supposed to be another option as well that we currently do not have.
2) It is not the " privileged" that will be doing under Biden. In fact he is taxing the privileged to pay for this. Did you even read ANY of this? If you had actually read his plans, you would see he is the ONLY candidate we have trying to do any of this.
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If you had you would see that he is POURING in funding for the areas the very areas you are complaining about here. Trying to stop evictions and preventing people like your family becoming homeless? yup, it's there Student loan debt forgiveness? Yup. Lower medications, better healthcare car plans and more subsidies? Yup.
Making rent+ utilities = 30% of your income
$8,000 tax credit per child.
A new Homeowner and Renter Bill of Rights.
Legal Assistance to Prevent Evictions Act of 2020
Legislation similar to the proposed HOME Act of 2019 to withhold some federal funds from states unless they develop “inclusionary zoning.
Applying the Community Reinvestment Act to mortgage and insurance companies
Apply the 10-20-30 plan to all federal programs – at least 10% of the money must go to areas that have had 20% or more poverty over the last 30 years.
Continue to require communities receiving certain federal funds to be subject to the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule
Ensuring 100% of formerly incarcerated individuals – at the federal and state level – have housing upon release, and require entities in federal housing programs to participate
Create a comprehensive housing grant program tailored to survivors of domestic and sexual violence
Tackle racial bias that leads to homes in communities of color being assessed by appraisers below their fair value
Within the HOME program, establish a $100 billion Affordable Housing Fund to construct and upgrade affordable housing, including
$65 billion in new incentives for state housing authorities
$ 5 billion to increase the stock of affordable housing as part of larger community development efforts
$20 billion increased funding for the Housing Trust Fun
$13 billion over five years to enact the Ending Homelessness Act
$10 billion over ten years to expand flexible funding for the Community Development Block Grant
$5 billion every year to expand the New Markets Tax Credit program
$300 million for Local Housing Policy Grants
Increase resources for mental health services and substance use disorder treatment, including through the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness program
Increase funding for the Multi-Family Direct Loans and the Single Family Direct Loans programs at USDA
Expand access to the Supportive Housing for the Elderly (“Section 202”) and Supportive Housing for Individuals with Disabilities (“Section 811”) programs
If you attend a public college or university. Tuition would be free for four years if your family has an income below $125,000
If you attend a community college. Tuition would be free for two years if you hadn’t previously pursued a postsecondary degree. You could also use these funds for a career-training program if it meets to-be-determined graduation and job placement rates
Biden healthcare centers around the public option
lowers Medicare age to 60
Increased subsidies and allow higher incomes to qualify to help plug the holes from the states who declined the Medicaid expansion and basing them on the gold plan instead of the silver plan.
End surprise billing
Prescription medication reform
This is ONLY a TINY portion of his plans he has come out here in the past couple of months. Did you just give up already and not bother to actually read them?
You are " claiming" you have to be privileged to vote for Biden, when his higher taxes only affect the " privileged" and his programs ONLY benefit the lower and middle class. The ONLY way you can claim "It's not practical, it's not effective, and most of all, it's not moral." is if you haven't even looked at his plans. Biden's plans actually do EXACTLY what you claim they don't. Where is the money trump is giving your community to help with affordable housing? You are claiming Biden isn't doing that, but you are not even looking at his plan. It is not even possible to look at his plan and then claim he isn't helping you or your community, because the teams who created his plans did exactly that. They figured out what communities needed and worked it into the plan and you would see that if you would just look at what's in his plans here. You gave up before ever reading anything.
ALSO , you are saying I complained about things that I think you have me confused with someone else on. And congress + DoJ is who prosecute and hold people accountable, not the president. The president isn't actually supposed to influence who is prosecuted as that is an abuse of power. Warren has been trying to hole bankers accountable, but Mitch + trump rolled back all her regulations. She still wants to pass law to hold bailout recipients accountable but democrat's need to control the senate for that.
Claiming the only path we have to do anything is not a solution, but then offering no actual plans or solutions that will change anything here. No plan to get from point A to B, C, D isn't better than the only actual plan we have right now. OF course we can just go back to our hidey holes and just let them crush us into nothing without having a voice at all by not voting, but I am not seeing that make any of this better either. I understand you likely didn't even want to read his plan because you hold him accountable for anything that happened while Obama was in office, but realistically here, not even Obama was responsible for everything that happened while he was in office. Trump and pence are not responsible for everything that has happened while they were in office either. They ARE responsible for their actions and policies though. Congress+ DoJ is responsible for prosecution and accountability of institutions though, not Trump Not Obama, Not Pence, Not Biden. I don't expect anyone to solve every problem, I just expect them to at least try to do what they told us they would to help. I put myself in their shoes and not just blame them for being human. None of us want their job and sadly atm, I think we are having problems finding decent people who will even try. I am worried we do not have people who can fill Bernie Sander's shoes. Elizabeth's Warren's shoes. Ruth Bader Ginsberg's Shoes. Who can get the message out there like Bernie? Who can write solid plans and make the numbers add up like Elizabeth? Who can bust down the doors and make the impossible possible like Ruth? I have no idea who we are supposed to replace these people with when they are gone. It is easy to complain about everything they didn't do, but who is offering to do something better at all and how do we get them the help they need to make it happen if we won't even listen to them in the first place?
Yea, voting Biden is the ONLY option we have right now because Trump's plan is to crush the middle and lower class entirely. NONE of this exists under Trump, in fact he would prefer to do away with ANY safety net all together. You have to pay attention to what is going on to know that though. It is like you took EXACTLY what Biden was doing here and claimed he was doing the opposite. Makes sense.